I try not to look back. I’m looking forward. I’m worried more about what I’m going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.
NEIL YOUNGAs I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn’t see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
More Neil Young Quotes
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All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don’t want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don’t want to.
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True love opens the gates of time.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.
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My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way … they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.
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Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
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I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he’s talking to?
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It’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.
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You were born to rock, you’ll never be an opera star.
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Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
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One good thing about the past is that you can’t change it. So there’s no reason to go back. It’s there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what’s happening next.
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Most people think it’s the other way around: that time is going faster and we’re doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we’re cramming so much into it.
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It is better to burn out then fade away
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