Neil Young Quotes
28 quotations by Neil Young
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing. |
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention. |
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near. |
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. |
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. |
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. |
The thing about my music is, there really is no point. |
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do. |
One new feature or fresh take can change everything. |
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. |
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. |
It's cool to go places where working people are happy. |
It's better to burn out than it is to rust. |
I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing. |
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say. |
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. |
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. |
I just do what I do. I like to make music. |
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. |
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere. |
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it. |
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of. |
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. |
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it. |
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. |
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. |
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. |
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. |