Neil Young

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Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.
- Neil Young
Collection: Long
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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?
- Neil Young
Collection: Lying
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The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.
- Neil Young
Collection: Death
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On one side the government, the other side the mob.
- Neil Young
Collection: Government
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Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.
- Neil Young
Collection: Fighting
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Love is a healer and I love you.
- Neil Young
Collection: Love
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I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.
- Neil Young
Collection: Religious
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All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.
- Neil Young
Collection: Writing
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This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.
- Neil Young
Collection: Thinking
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
- Neil Young
Collection: Pain
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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.
- Neil Young
Collection: Music
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It is better to burn out then fade away
- Neil Young
Collection: Burned Out
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Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.
- Neil Young
Collection: Going Away
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I watched the needle take another man.
- Neil Young
Collection: Men
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I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.
- Neil Young
Collection: Matter
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It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
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Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.
- Neil Young
Collection: Education
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It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
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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 some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
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The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
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That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
- Neil Young
Collection: Country
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I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
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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.
- Neil Young
Collection: Government
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You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
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An idea discovered is much better possessed.
- Neil Young
Collection: Ideas
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Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
- Neil Young
Collection: Music
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Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.
- Neil Young
Collection: Book
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Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record.
- Neil Young
Collection: Should Have
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The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.
- Neil Young
Collection: Responsibility
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I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.
- Neil Young
Collection: Song
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The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.
- Neil Young
Collection: Country
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A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
- Neil Young
Collection: Jobs
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In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.
- Neil Young
Collection: Opportunity
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Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
- Neil Young
Collection: Men
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As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.
- Neil Young
Collection: Want
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I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.
- Neil Young
Collection: Thinking
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I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.
- Neil Young
Collection: Perfect
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The king is gone but he's not forgotten
- Neil Young
Collection: Kings
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I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
- Neil Young
Collection: Thinking
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Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.
- Neil Young
Collection: Evil
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
- Neil Young
Collection: Musician
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We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.
- Neil Young
Collection: Gun
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Was he a doper or was he just a loser?
- Neil Young
Collection: Loser
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I've seen the needle and the damage done.
- Neil Young
Collection: Alcohol
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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.
- Neil Young
Collection: Philosophy
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Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
- Neil Young
Collection: Mother