Neil Young Quotes

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

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

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

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.

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 look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

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

I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

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

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

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.

There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes.

Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar, Dancing on the light from star to star. Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are, I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream, You could have been anyone to me. Before that moment you touched my lips That perfect feeling when time just slips Away between us on our foggy trip.

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.

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

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

True love opens the gates of time.

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.

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

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

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

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

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'.

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

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

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

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

Holding back is so close to stealing.

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

Out of the blue and into the black

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

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

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.