Neil Young Quotes

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.

Think I'll roll another number for the road

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

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

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

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.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

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

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.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

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

It is better to burn out then fade away

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

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

Every junkie is like a setting sun.

Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

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

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

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

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.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

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.

Keep on rockin' in the free world.

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

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.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

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

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

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

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

It's only a dream Just a memory without anywhere to stay

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

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.

I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.

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