Neil Young Quotes

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

Love is a healer and I love you.

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

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

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

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.

I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

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

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.

All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

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

I watched the needle take another man.

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.

True love opens the gates of time.

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

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

Imagination is my best friend.

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.

I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

It is better to burn out then fade away

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.