Top 275 Quotes & Sayings by Neil Young - Page 5

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

Bad news is just an excuse.

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?

I've seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's Like a settin' sun.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

It is better to burn out then fade away

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

I watched the needle take another man.

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

Love is a healer and I love you.

My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.

I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.