Quotes By Neil Young

Rock and roll is here to stay.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Live music is better.

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

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

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.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.