"You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain."
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Neil Young quotes (page 12 of 14)
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"In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right."
"Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says."
"The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end."
"If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming."
"I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?"
"All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it."
"Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change."
"[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today."
"Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean."
"You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are."
"Down by the river, I shot my baby dead."
"Bad news is just an excuse."
"When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash."
"I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist."
"I want to be a reflection of what's going on and let people draw their own conclusions."
"I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am."
"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."
"On one side the government, the other side the mob."
"The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard."