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Quotes from Neil Young

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
~ Neil Young
Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.
~ Neil Young
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
~ Neil Young
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
~ Neil Young
In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.
~ Neil Young
Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
~ Neil Young
Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
~ Neil Young
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
~ Neil Young
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
It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
~ Neil Young
True love opens the gates of time.
~ Neil Young
I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
~ Neil Young
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
~ Neil Young
If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.
~ Neil Young
This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.
~ Neil Young
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.
~ Neil Young
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
~ Neil Young
It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
~ Neil Young
Only love can break your heart.
~ Neil Young
Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.
~ Neil Young
Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.
~ Neil Young
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
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
~ Neil Young
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.
~ Neil Young