Quotes By Neil Young

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

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

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

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

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'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.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

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

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

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.

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

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

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?

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.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

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.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

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 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.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

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

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.

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.

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

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.

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