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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. "
Neil Young
Way
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Live music is better. "
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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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" I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. "
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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 '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. "
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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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" 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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" Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. "
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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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" 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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" One new feature or fresh take can change everything. "
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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 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 think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it. "
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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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" I just do what I do. I like to make music. "
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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 just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. "
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" It's cool to go places where working people are happy. "
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People
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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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" 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 don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. "
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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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" 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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