A Quote by Neil Young

Holding back is so close to stealing. — © Neil Young
Holding back is so close to stealing.
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in readiness to go or do; listening, that is holding quiet and still so as to hear.
When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
Whats holding you back is the thought that something is holding you back.
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.
Nothing's holding me back. If I'm held back, the only thing holding me back was me.
I'd love to be in action movies. I've been trying to convince people. I don't think it's anything physical holding me back. I think it's a general vibe thing that's holding me back. I don't project action confidence, maybe.
When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.
Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.
It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last year I spent more money, on spilled liquor, in bars from one side of this world to the other, than you made! You’re talking to the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, whoa! wheelin dealin’, limosuine riding, jet flying son of a gun and I’m having a hard time holding these alligators down!
I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.
Stealing was a rush to me, more about the feeling than the thing I was stealing.
Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red, I returned to the song and wrote the 'I'll keep holding on' chorus.
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