Neil Young Quotes
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Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
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Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.
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We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.
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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.
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Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
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Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
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Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
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This time 2016 is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.
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A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.
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I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
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And the world on a string doesn't mean a thing.
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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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Learning from other people is what music is all about.
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The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.
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I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.
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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.
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I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.
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It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
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And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.
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I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.
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Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.
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Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.
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Bad news is just an excuse.
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Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.