Neil Young: Quotes about thinking

Neil Young is Canadian singer-songwriter. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

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“I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.”

“Shelter me from the powder
And the finger
Cover me with the thought
That pulled the trigger
Think of me
As one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone.”

Powderfinger
Song lyrics, Rust Never Sleeps (1978)

“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.”

Roll Another Number (For The Road)
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

“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.”

Roll Another Number (For The Road)
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)

“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.”

Sugar Mountain (1969)
Song lyrics

“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.”

Neil Young Old Man

Old Man
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)

“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.”

Motion Pictures
Song lyrics, On the Beach (1974)

“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.”

After the Gold Rush
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)

“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.”

Words (between the lines of age)
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)