Top 275 Quotes & Sayings by Neil Young - Page 4

I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.

When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.

The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.

The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.

I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.

I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record.

I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

I want to be a reflection of what's going on and let people draw their own conclusions.

I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.