Neil Young Quotes

It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

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.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

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.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

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.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

Keep it moving. Don't hoard. Money's no good, get rid of it. Turn it into people doing things. Turn it into jobs. Turn it into happiness...The more people I employ, the happier I am - that means my money's goin' into other people's lives, and if I can give 'em something to create that they can be happy with, that's great.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

Out of the blue and into the black

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

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'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

Bad news is just an excuse.

The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.