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Neil Young is a renowned Canadian singer-songwriter, born on November 12, 1945. His musical career spans over half a century, known for his distinctive voice and profound lyrics. Young's musical style is versatile, covering genres from folk to rock, country to alternative, leaving his mark in various musical landscapes.

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Famous Neil Young Quotes

“I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.”

Thinking Way Grows Rocks Let Me Rock And Roll Let Me Down

Author:Neil Young

“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.”

Way Moving Voice Interest Moving Forward Way To Live

Author:Neil Young

“The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.”

Way Mean Iraq Usa Britain Great Britain Endgame

Author:Neil Young

“When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.”

Men Way Wells Speak Hurt Common Environment Species Campaigns My Way Corporations Speaks Out Common Man

Author:Neil Young

“I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.”

Thinking Way Play Shows Able Together Remember Song Break Plans Written Happened Exception Arrangements Breaking Down Trails Groove Remembers Everything

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“It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.”

Way Kind Song Months Right Time Looking Good Trails

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“It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.”

Way Should Firsts Done Company Should Have Injustice Permission Stopping Bully Pipeline

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“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.”

Thinking Way Looks Used Keys Fingers Knives Workout Chords Think Twice

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“Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.”

People Way Giving Feels I Can Feelings Turns Morning Youth Son Band Music Is Give Me Fighter Pearls Giver Jackets Jam Posing Turn Me Pearl Jam Foo Fighters Sonic Youth

Book:Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe

Source: Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe

“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.”

People Way Art Age Used Choices Justice Quality Percent Originals Data Digital Inferiors Improving Convenience Degrading Digital Age Mp3

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“My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.”

Way Country Play Song Speak Sound Music Musician Radio Nashville

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“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.”

People Knows Way Want Asking Over You Getting Over You

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“Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.”

Way Giving Children Earth Mother Song Our Children Trade Mother Earth Giving Way

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“Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.”

People Way Hard Song Hard Work Drink Stopping

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“It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand”

Way Enough Hands Truth Turns Land Credit Cards One Way Fuel Sand Burned Tickets Credit Card Had Enough Pavement Suitcases

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“For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.”

Way Hell Creative Juice Geography Good Place Creative Juices

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“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.”

People Thinking Way Seems Speed Faster Cramming

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“Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.”

Knows Way Guitar Links Grunge

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About the Author

Born: November 12, 1945
Known for: Songwriter
Quotes: 283

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