Quotes By Neil Young
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.
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
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
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Neil Young
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
Neil Young
We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.
Neil Young
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
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
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 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
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
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
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.
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
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?
Neil Young