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" As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. "
Neil Young
Myself
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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, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? "
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" Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. "
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" The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it. "
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" Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. "
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" When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near. "
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" I just do what I do. I like to make music. "
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" It's better to burn out, than to fade away. "
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" I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord. "
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" Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. "
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Worst
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" It's cool to go places where working people are happy. "
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Places
People
Happy
" We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets. "
Neil Young
Living
Universe
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" I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. "
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" As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. "
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Through
" When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by. "
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Know
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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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Old
Feel
Rug
" I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water. "
Neil Young
Water
Playing
Landing
" 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. "
Neil Young
Eyes
Today
People
" 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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Explore
Doing
Writing
" The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. "
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Music
Generation
Used
" Rock and roll is here to stay. "
Neil Young
Roll
Rock And Roll
Stay
" I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. "
Neil Young
Time
One Day At A Time
Song
" One new feature or fresh take can change everything. "
Neil Young
Everything
New
Take
" The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe. "
Neil Young
Space
Rockets
Universe
" 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. That's a real danger. "
Neil Young
Music
Me
Opinions
" My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. "
Neil Young
Music
Me
Jazz
" I don't like the American media - particularly Fox. "
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Like
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American
" Live music is better. "
Neil Young
Live Music
Better
Music
" 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. "
Neil Young
God
Thank God
Saying
" I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow. "
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Arrow
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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. "
Neil Young
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