Neil Young Quotes

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

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

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

Live music is better.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

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

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

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

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

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

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

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

It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

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

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

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 rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Think I'll roll another number for the road

Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.