Quotes By Neil Young

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

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.

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

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.

Better to burn out than rust out.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

Live music is better.

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