Neil Young Quotes
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People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.
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I just do what I do. I like to make music.
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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.
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Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.
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A dreamer of picturesI run in the night.You see us together,Chasing the moonlight,My cinnamon girl.
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
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The economy was getting so bad, I had to lay myself off.
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I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.
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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.
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I watched the needle take another man.
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Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.
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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.
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My my, hey heyRock and roll is here to stay.It's better to burn outThan to fade away.My my, hey hey.
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The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
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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.
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Well, people let me tell you, it sent a chill up and down my spine,When I picked up the telephone and heard that he'd died out on the mainline.
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Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
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You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.
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When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.
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Well, all those people, they think they've got it made,But I wouldn't buy, sell, borrow or tradeAnything I have to be like one of them.I'd rather start all over again.
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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.