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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. "
Neil Young
Music
Me
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else. "
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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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" 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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" Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. "
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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'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. "
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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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" 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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" As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. "
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" There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. "
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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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" I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The thing about my music is, there really is no point. "
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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 can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. "
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" I don't like the American media - particularly Fox. "
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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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" 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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" 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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