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Neil Young
November 12, 1945 -
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Musician
Subcategory: Canadian Musician

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

   

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

   

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

   

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

   

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

   

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.

   

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

   

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

   

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.

   

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

   

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

   

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

   

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

   

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