Top 35 Neil Young Quotes

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

Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we’ll be living on other planets.

I don’t like the American media – particularly Fox.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

I don’t think I’m a thorn in the industry, I’m just another part of it.

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 was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

I don’t think there is one president that’s come down the line that hasn’t done something good somewhere.

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.

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

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the ’90s. Who’s to say what is and isn’t a certain type of music?

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

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.

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

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you’re supporting everything they do.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we’re going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

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.

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

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

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

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

Rock and roll is here to stay.

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

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 you’re young, you don’t have any experience – you’re charged up, but you’re out of control. And if you’re old and you’re not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you’re charged and stimulated by what’s going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

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.

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.

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 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 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.