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Neil Young
62 quotes
“Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons, You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain Though you're thinking that You're leaving there too soon, You're leaving there too soon.”
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Recorded in: Sugar Mountain (1969)
“Did you see them in the river? They were there to wave to you. Could you tell that the empty quiver, Brown skinned Indian on the banks That were crowded and narrow, Held a broken arrow?”
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Recorded in: Broken Arrow, from Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
“There you stood on the edge of your feather Expecting to fly. While I laughed, I wondered whether I could wave goodbye Knowin' that you'd gone.”
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“I gave to you, now, you give to me I'd like to know what you learned. The sky is blue and so is the sea What is the color, when black is burned?”
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Recorded in: I Am a Child, from Last Time Around (1968)
“There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there.”
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Recorded in: Helpless, from Déjà Vu (1970)
“Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drummin'. Four dead in Ohio.”
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Recorded in: Ohio, from 4 Way Street (1971)
“If you guarantee the postage, I'll mail you back the key.”
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“I've been looking for a woman to save my life Not to beg or to borrow A woman with the feeling of losing once or twice.”
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“A dreamer of pictures I run in the night. You see us together, Chasing the moonlight, My cinnamon girl.”
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“You take my hand, I'll take your hand Together we may get away This much madness is too much sorrow It's impossible to make it today.”
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“Look at Mother Nature on the run In the nineteen seventies.”
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“I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst through the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high. I was thinking about what a Friend had said I was hoping it was a lie.”
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“But only love can break your heart Try to be sure right from the start Yes only love can break your heart What if your world should fall apart?”
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“Southern man better keep your head. Don't forget what your good book said. Southern change gonna come at last Now your crosses are burning fast. Southern man.”
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“Don't let it bring you down It's only castles burning, Just find someone who's turning And you will come around.”
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“When you dance, Do your senses tingle? Then take a chance? In a trance, While the lonely mingle With circumstance?”
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“See the lonely boy, out on the weekend, Tryin' to make it pay. Can't relate to joy, he tries to speak and Can't begin to say.”
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“Will I see you give More than I can take? Will I only harvest some? As the days fly past Will we lose our grasp Or fuse it in the sun?”
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“I've been to Hollywood I've been to Redwood I crossed the ocean For a heart of gold. I've been in my mind, It's such a fine line That keeps me searching For a heart of gold. And I'm getting old.”
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“Old man look at my life, Twenty four And there's so much more Live alone in a paradise That makes me think of two.”
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“Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you. I need someone to love me The whole day through. Ah, one look in my eyes And you can tell that's true.”
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“I've seen the needle and the damage done. A little part of it in everyone. But every junkie's like a settin' sun.”
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“If I was a junkman selling you cars, Washing your windows and shining your stars, Thinking your mind was my own in a dream What would you wonder and how would it seem? Living in castles a bit at a time The King started laughing and talking in rhyme. Singing words, words between the lines of age. Words, words between the lines of age.”
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“A while ago somewhere I don't know whenI was watching a movie with a friendI fell in love with the actressShe was playing a part that I could understandA maid”
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“Oh, baby, that's hard to change, I can't tell them how to feel, Some get stoned, some get strange, But sooner or later, it all gets real. Walk on. Walk on.”
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“Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars, But I hate them worse than lepers and I'll kill them in their cars.”
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“You can really learn a lot that way, It will change you in the middle of the day, Though your confidence may be shattered, It doesn't matter.”
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“The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away.”
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“Well, all those people, they think they've got it made, But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow or trade Anything I have to be like one of them. I'd rather start all over again.”
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“I guess I'll call it sickness gone, It's hard to say the meaning of this song.”
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“You're all just pissin' in the wind, You don't know it but you are.”
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“I have seen you in the movies, And in those magazines at night. I saw you on the barstool, When you held that glass so tight.”
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“He came dancing across the water with his galleons and guns Looking for the new world in that palace in the sun”
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“On the shore lay Montezuma with his coca leaves and pearlsIn his halls he often wondered of the secrets of the worlds....The women all were beautiful, the men stood straight and strongThey offered life in sacrifice so that others could go on Hate was just a legend, war was never knownThe people worked together and they lifted many stones.”
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“A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hand.”
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“Well, people let me tell you, it sent a chill up and down my spine, When I picked up the telephone and heard that he'd died out on the mainline.”
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“Oh tell me where the answer lies, Is it in the notebook behind your eyes?”
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“And the world on a string doesn't mean a thing.”
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“I'm singin' this borrowed tune I took from the Rolling Stones, Alone in this empty room, too wasted to write my own.”
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“Think I'll roll another number for the road, I feel able to get under any load, Though my feet aren't on the ground, I've been standing on the sound Of some open-hearted people going down.”
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“I'm not going back to Woodstock for a while, Though I long to hear that lonesome hippie smile, I'm a million miles away from that helicopter day, No, I don't think I'll be goin' back that way.”
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“I've been flyin' down the road, And I've been starvin' to be alone, Independent from the scene that I've known.”
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“He tried to do his best but he could not.”
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“Please take my advice, please take my advice, Open up the tired eyes, Open up the tired eyes.”
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“You are like a hurricane There's calm in your eye. And I'm gettin' blown away To somewhere safer Where the feeling stays. I want to love you but I'm getting blown away.”
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“It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.”
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“It's gonna take a lotta love To change the way things are It's gonna take a lotta love Or we won't get too far.”
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“It's gonna take a lotta love To get us through the night It's gonna take a lotta love To make things work out right.”
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“My my, hey hey Rock and roll is here to stay. It's better to burn out Than to fade away. My my, hey hey.”
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“Where the eagle glides ascending There's an ancient river bending Through the timeless gorge of changes Where sleeplessness awaits.”
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