Quotes By Neil Young
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
Neil Young
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.
Neil Young
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
Neil Young
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.
Neil Young
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
Neil Young
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.
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.
Neil Young
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.
Neil Young
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
Neil Young
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
Neil Young
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.
Neil Young
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
Neil Young
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
Neil Young
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.
Neil Young
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.
Neil Young
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Neil Young
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.
Neil Young
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Neil Young