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" Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. "
Neil Young
Worst
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Annoying
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" I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real. "
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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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" I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing. "
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" I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say. "
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" I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. "
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" Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. "
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" 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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" 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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Today
People
" One new feature or fresh take can change everything. "
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" 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. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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" The thing about my music is, there really is no point. "
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" Rock and roll is here to stay. "
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Rock And Roll
Stay
" 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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Truck
Rather
Play
" 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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Story
Terrorism
Act
" 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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God
Thank God
Saying
" 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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People
Start
" To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. "
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Short
Seems
Some
" As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. "
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Go
Life
Through
" 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. "
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Myself
Outside
View
" I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. "
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Away
I Can
Naive
" Live music is better. "
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Live Music
Better
Music
" 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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Music
Me
Jazz
" I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. "
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Creation
Nature
Religion
" Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done. "
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Done
Along
Jump
" 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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Sing
Than
" I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow. "
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Years
" I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. "
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" 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. "
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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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Other
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