Neil Young Quotes

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Neil Young

Profession : Singer

Birth : November 12, 1945

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.

Neil Young

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

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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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When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

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Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

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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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I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

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I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

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I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

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I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

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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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The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

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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 lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

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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 to explore it.

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I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

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I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

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