Neil Young Quotes
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We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.
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There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.
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Every wave is new until it breaks.
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Out of the blue and into the black
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I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.
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I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
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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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Keep it moving. Don't hoard. Money's no good, get rid of it. Turn it into people doing things. Turn it into jobs. Turn it into happiness...The more people I employ, the happier I am - that means my money's goin' into other people's lives, and if I can give 'em something to create that they can be happy with, that's great.
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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
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People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.
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As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.
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This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.
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Keep on rockin' in the free world.
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The person who builds a character makes foes.
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That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
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We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.
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True love opens the gates of time.
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If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.
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All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.
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You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
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Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.
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Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.
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It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
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Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
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I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.
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No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.
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Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.
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I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.
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