Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Better to burn out than rust out.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

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

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.

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.

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 was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

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.