"If you follow every dream, you might get lost."
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Neil Young quotes (page 2 of 14)
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"Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you."
"We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice."
"There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes."
"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."
"Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar, Dancing on the light from star to star. Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are, I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream, You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips That perfect feeling when time just slips Away between us on our foggy trip."
"I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold."
"I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years."
"True love opens the gates of time."
"Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs."
"Cocaine eyes won't hide your face."
"It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it."
"I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map."
"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."
"Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl."
"I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones."
"It's better to burn out, than to fade away."
"A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you."
"You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'."
"Holding back is so close to stealing."