Quotes By Neil Young

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

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.

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

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.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

Live music is better.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

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.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

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.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

Better to burn out than rust out.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

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.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.