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Song Quotes by Neil Young

64 Song quotes by Neil Young

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A lot of people who buy vinyl today don’t realize they’re hearing CD masters on the record. The quotes mention two kinds of love, one right and one wrong, and talk about mining a heart of gold through music. They also note that the worst songs often appear when you stop overthinking.

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You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

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Rock and roll is here to stay.

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I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

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Imagination is my best friend.

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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

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There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

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True love opens the gates of time.

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I just do what I do. I like to make music

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Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

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I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

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We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

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The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

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I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.

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It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

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Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

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Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And…

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It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were…

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With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day…

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I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head,…

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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A…

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It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the…

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I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued…

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I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people…

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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…

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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean,…

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The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they…

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Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about.…

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We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or…

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I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right…

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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…

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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…

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“The interstate seems to stretch for miles in a straight line as the fields and farms give way to a more barren…

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“Pegi just recorded "I Don't Want to Talk About," written by Danny Whitten, the original Crazy Horse guitar player and singer who's…

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“In the end, the record companies have the power to control the quality that is served online. Online service has been problematic…

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You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

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It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

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Learning from other people is what music is all about.

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“Rock and Roll can never die.”

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Hey, hey, my, my, rock and roll will never die.

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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.

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember…

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

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…

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom…

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans…

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.