Neil Young Quotes

Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.

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

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.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

Live music is better.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

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.

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

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

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

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

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.

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

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

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

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

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

Imagination is my best friend.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

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.

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

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

I've seen the needle And the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's Like a settin' sun.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

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

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

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

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

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

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

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

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

Every wave is new until it breaks.

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

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

Think I'll roll another number for the road