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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. "
Neil Young
Country
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See
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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. "
Neil Young
Creation
Nature
Religion
" It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. "
Neil Young
Now
Blues
Blue
" The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. "
Neil Young
Music
Generation
Used
" I just do what I do. I like to make music. "
Neil Young
Like
Make
Music
" 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. "
Neil Young
Know
Control
Experience
" 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? "
Neil Young
Mean
Music
Say
" 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
" It's better to burn out, than to fade away. "
Neil Young
Fade
Burn
Away
" 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. "
Neil Young
Know
People
Start
" I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it. "
Neil Young
Part
Thorn
Industry
" I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere. "
Neil Young
Line
Done
Somewhere
" Rock and roll is here to stay. "
Neil Young
Roll
Rock And Roll
Stay
" I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. "
Neil Young
Old
Feel
Rug
" 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. "
Neil Young
Playing
Sing
Than
" 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
Myself
Before
Like
" It's cool to go places where working people are happy. "
Neil Young
Places
People
Happy
" 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
" The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe. "
Neil Young
Space
Rockets
Universe
" I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say. "
Neil Young
Say
Agree
Man
" 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
Think
Look
" Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. "
Neil Young
Truck
Rather
Play
" 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. "
Neil Young
Guilty
Celebration
Think
" 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
" 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. "
Neil Young
Story
Terrorism
Act
" One new feature or fresh take can change everything. "
Neil Young
Everything
New
Take
" Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do. "
Neil Young
Down
People
Say
" Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done. "
Neil Young
Done
Along
Jump
" Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. "
Neil Young
Kids
Just
Doing
" I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. "
Neil Young
Away
I Can
Naive
" There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. "
Neil Young
Edge
Roll
Rock