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1. "I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master." ~ Neil Young

2. "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

3. "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature." ~ Neil Young

4. "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." ~ Neil Young

5. "As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks." ~ Neil Young

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

7. "I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time." ~ Neil Young

8. "I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated." ~ Neil Young

9. "I don't like the American media - particularly Fox." ~ Neil Young

10. "We shared a piece of Poncho's apple pie, and I told Poncho about PureTone. Like all serious musicians, he is depressed by the quality of sound the people's music id delivered in today. That is the impression I have gotten from every Musician I have met. Everyone. After he heard PureTone, Ben Bourdon, one of Ben Young's caregivers asked me if I was making war on Apple. I said, "No. I'm waging heavy peace." ~ Neil Young

11. "It's better to burn out, than to fade away." ~ Neil Young

12. "I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing." ~ Neil Young

13. "I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say." ~ Neil Young

14. "The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together." ~ Neil Young

15. "Earth is a flower and it's pollinating." ~ Neil Young

16. "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." ~ Neil Young

17. "With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing." ~ Neil Young

18. "I just do what I do. I like to make music." ~ Neil Young

19. "This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story." ~ Neil Young

20. "Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying." ~ Neil Young

21. "Briggs was living in Toronto at the time and had started a studio called Thunder Sound. He recorded the Massey Hall show. He thought this live show should have come out right away and was disappointed and disagreed with my decision to instead put out Harvest-he thought it was not as good as the Massey Hall recording. "It's great, Neil," Briggs said. "Put it out there." But that was not to be.When I heard the show thirty-four years later while reviewing tapes for my archive performance series, I was a little shocked-I agreed with David. After listening, I felt his frustration. This was better than Harvest. It meant more. He was right. I had missed it. He understood it. David was usually right, and when I disagreed with him, I was usually wrong. Every time I go into the studio or onstage, he is missed." ~ Neil Young

22. "The interstate seems to stretch for miles in a straight line as the fields and farms give way to a more barren landscape. "Loneliness has been good to me' is playing on my personal radio where I hear songs before I write them, and I wonder if this is just another mirage I will forget or if this will become a real song. It has been a long time since I've written a song, and the visits from the muse seem to be lessened by something. I still keep my faith that the muse knows best and whn I am ready the inspiration will be there. I am trying not to look too ready. I know that just invites false promise." ~ Neil Young

23. "Without Pegi, I'm an island without an ocean" ~ Neil Young

24. "Out of the blue and into the black" ~ Neil Young

25. "There is some blogging jerk out there who feels he can generalize his way to validity." ~ Neil Young

26. "Pegi just recorded "I Don't Want to Talk About," written by Danny Whitten, the original Crazy Horse guitar player and singer who's all over Early Daze, an album of songs from the beginning of Crazy Horse that I have been working on compiling recently. Danny was every bit the artist I am, but he died of a heroin OD in the early seventies. Every time I hear Pegi sing that song, it makes me tremendously sad. She sings it so beautifully, phrasing it to break my heart. She does it justice. You can see I have some unfinished business with Danny." ~ Neil Young

27. "Piracy is the new radio." ~ Neil Young

28. "It's hard enough losing with out the confusion of knowing I tried." ~ Neil Young

29. "My archive project is a multiedged sword. It is something I love doing, but it raises some questions about my motives in doing it. A writer accused me of building my archives just to further my own legend, whatever that is. I hope you don't believe that. What a shallow existence that would be! I remember reading that article saying that about me. It pissed me off. It's my life, and I am a collector. I collect everything: cars, trains, manuscripts, photographs, tape recordings, records, memories and clothes, to name a few. The fact that I want to create a chronological history of my recordings and supporting work is proof positive that I am an incurable collector, confronted with an amazingly detailed array of creations that I have painstakingly rat-holed over the years." ~ Neil Young

30. "You might notice I refer to my son Ben as Ben Young all the time. Larry (Johnson) always called his son Ben Johnson. I liked the pride with which he would say "Ben Johnson." It is a lingering memory of his great spirit." ~ Neil Young

31. "I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people can't get what they need from listening to music anymore, so it is dying." ~ Neil Young

32. "It's only castles burning" ~ Neil Young

33. "I was not doing what I was told to do. And they sued me for making music "uncharacteristic of Neil Young." That was Geffen Rocords' biggeest mistake, I think. The mistakes all started when I caved and didn't give them Island in the Sun. They wanted me to be commercially successful, and I wanted to be an artist expressing myself-those two goals are not always compatible. I was expecting to have the same artistic freedom that I had at Asylum Records, but Geffen Records wanted me to be a smash, selling millions of records. Most important, Geffen was not a hands-on at Geffen Records. He had other people doing that. It showed." ~ Neil Young

34. "I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore." ~ Neil Young

35. "Bruce is still my friend. We don't talk much. We don't have to. He is great and in his own league. I'm not him and he is not me. But we are on similar paths, writing and singing out own kind of songs around the world, along with Bob and a few other singer/songwriters. It is a a silent fraternity of sorts, occupying this space in people's souls with our music. Last year, I lost my right-hand man, the pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith. This year Bruce lost his right-hand man, the saxophonist Clarence Clemons. It's time for another talk; friends can help each other just by being there. Now both of us will look to our right and see a giant hole, a memory, the past and the future. I won't play with another steel player trying to recreate Ben's parts, and I know Bruce won't play with another sax man trying to play Clarence's. Those parts are not going to happen again. They already did. That takes a lot out of our repertoires." ~ Neil Young

36. "I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be totally stumped and have writer's block. We will see. Writing is very convenient, has a low expense and is a great way to pass the time. I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn't know what to do next. You could hire someone to write it for you if you can't write it yourself. That doesn't seem to matter. Just don't hire some sweaty hack who asks you questions for years and twists them into his own vision of what is right or wrong. Try to avoid doing that." ~ Neil Young

37. "If you follow every dream, you might get lost." ~ Neil Young

38. "Keep on rockin' in the free world." ~ Neil Young

39. "And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold." ~ Neil Young

40. "Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around." ~ Neil Young

41. "This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down." ~ Neil Young

42. "There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high" ~ Neil Young

43. "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." ~ Neil Young

44. "I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream" ~ Neil Young

45. "A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while." ~ Neil Young

46. "I looked around out the driver's window of the hearse. It was Stills! We got out and hugged right there on Sunset Boulevard in the middle of traffic. Horns were honking! To us it seemed like everybody was celebrating! Something was happening, but we didn't know what it was. It was fucking Buffalo Springfield, that's what it was." ~ Neil Young

47. "I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream" ~ Neil Young

48. "Shelter me from the powder and the fingerCover me with the thought that pulled the triggerThink of me as one you'd never figuredWould fade away so youngWith so much left undoneRemember me to my love,I know I'll miss her." ~ Neil Young

49. "Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel" ~ Neil Young

50. "Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American. . . stars 'n bars." ~ Neil Young

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