Neil Young Quotes

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

In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

It's gotta be fun, if it's not fun it's not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That's the mission of Pono.

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

I want to be a reflection of what's going on and let people draw their own conclusions.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

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.

The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.

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

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

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

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

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

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

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

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

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

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.