Neil Young Quotes

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• Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
• Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
• I watched the needle take another man.
• The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
• 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, don't sit down…
• Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
• I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream
• In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it…
• I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy.…
• Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.
• Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.
• It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking…
• We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it  It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s…
• I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
• As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
• I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
• The king is gone but he's not forgotten
• Out of the blue and into the black
• We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
• ... my songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way…

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