Neil Young Quotes
My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
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I'm as honest as I can be.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
