Quotes from Neil Young

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

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

Live music is better.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

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

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.

Every junkie's like a setting sun.

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

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

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

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

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.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

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

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

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

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

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

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

when we were strangers, I liked you from afar when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart

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

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

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