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Quotes by Neil Young

Neil Young

“I never believed in much, but I believed in you”

“If you follow every dream you might get lost,”

“Its better to burn out than it is to rust”

“Its better to burn out, then to fade away.”

“Its better to burn out, than to fade away.”

“When youre in your 20s, then you and your world are the biggest thing, and everything revolves around what youre doing. Now I realize Im a leaf floating along on the water on top of some river. Thats where Im at.”

“Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and youd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? Thats what rocknroll is becoming. Its your parents music.”

“My my, hey hey Rock and roll is here to stay”

“Better to burn out than rust out.”

“Its kinda like a toothpaste commercial, but theres no product.”

“The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind”

“Theres beauty in the silver singing river, Theres beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true loves eyes”

“Some get stoned, some get strange. Sooner or later it all gets real. Walk on.”

“Aint it hard when you wake up in the morning, and you find out that those other days are gone... All you have is memories of happiness, lingering on... All your friends and your lovers wont protect you; theyre only passing through you in the end... Theyll leave you stripped of all that you can get to and wait for you to come back again... But still a light is shining, from that lamp on down the hall... Maybe the Star of Bethlehem wasnt a star at all.”

“It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.”

“Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.”

“Cure blindness with a whores spittle.”

“The voyeur is masturbator, the mirror his badge, the window his prey.”

“The spectator is a dying animal.”

“In the womb we are blind cave fish.”