Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it. Neil Young More Quotes by Neil Young More Quotes From Neil Young I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary. Neil Young white america jesus 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. Neil Young play song thinking Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids. Neil Young mother games kids I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them. Neil Young burning ems people We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them. Neil Young vietnam war believe As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift. Neil Young fund vision important I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio. Neil Young california couple writing Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda. Neil Young fats skinny long Love is a healer and I love you. Neil Young love-you love-is love Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says. Neil Young southern men book You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever. Neil Young old-lady shirts It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half. Neil Young singing drug song 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. Neil Young gone want looks That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet. Neil Young defining-moments play country I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to? Neil Young eye men lying We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand. Neil Young gun light men Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright. Neil Young horse dark heart Was he a doper or was he just a loser? Neil Young explanation loser Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music. Neil Young sweaters rocks parent If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming. Neil Young swimming want lost
