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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. "
Neil Young
Explore
Doing
Writing
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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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" Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do. "
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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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" 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 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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Before
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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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Life
Through
" I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. "
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One Day At A Time
Song
" 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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Think
Look
" 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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" 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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Me
Jazz
" Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. "
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" I just do what I do. I like to make music. "
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" 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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Seems
Some
" I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. "
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One Day
Day
" 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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" I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else. "
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Earth
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" It's better to burn out, than to fade away. "
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