Top 275 Quotes & Sayings by Neil Young
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
Live music is better.
I just do what I do. I like to make music.
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.
There's more to a picture than meets the eye.
The person who builds a character makes foes.
Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.
Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.
It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.
Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.
One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
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