Neil Young Quotes
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I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.
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Will I see you giveMore than I can take?Will I only harvest some?As the days fly pastWill we lose our graspOr fuse it in the sun?Did she wake you upTo tell you thatIt was only a change of plan?Dream up, dream up,Let me fill your cupWith the promise of a man.
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I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.
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As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.
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I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
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I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
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Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
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The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.
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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.
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Don't let it bring you downIt's only castles burning,Just find someone who's turningAnd you will come around.
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Keep it moving. Don't hoard. Money's no good, get rid of it. Turn it into people doing things. Turn it into jobs. Turn it into happiness...The more people I employ, the happier I am - that means my money's goin' into other people's lives, and if I can give 'em something to create that they can be happy with, that's great.
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As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
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When I was a younger man,Got lucky with a rock 'n' roll band,Struck gold in Hollywood,All the time I knew I wouldGet back to the country,Back where it all began.Get back to the country,Back in the barn again.
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Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.
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That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
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You can really learn a lot that way,It will change you in the middle of the day,Though your confidence may be shattered,It doesn't matter.
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Every wave is new until it breaks.
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I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.
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Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
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Well, I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars,But I hate them worse than lepers and I'll kill them in their cars.
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It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. ... Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. ... That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.
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The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
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As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.