Quotes By Neil Young

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

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

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

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.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

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.

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

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

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.

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 go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

Better to burn out than rust out.

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

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 feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

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