Top 100 Quotes About Neil Young
#1. It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
Neil Young
#2. There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
Neil Young
#3. I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
Ray Lamontagne
#4. To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Neil Young
#5. There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high
Neil Young
#7. Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.
Neil Young
#8. We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo
#9. Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
Neil Young
#10. The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
Neil Jordan
#12. I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
Neil Young
#13. My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.
Neil Young
#14. There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.
Neil Gaiman
#15. You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
Neil Young
#16. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams ... all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times ... they're the songs that last through time.
Dolly Parton
#17. I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Neil Young
#18. A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Neil Young
#19. I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
Art Alexakis
#20. I've always been better moving than I am standing still.
Neil Young
#21. The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
Neil Young
#22. The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.
Neil Turok
#23. Tell him that we have fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam. Tell him that or I'll fucking kill you, said the young man mildly, from the smoke.
Neil Gaiman
#24. It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
Neil Young
#25. Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.
Neil Gaiman
#26. The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever-increasing economic disparity, and the well-funded legislative decisions, all favor corporate interests over the people.
Neil Young
#27. I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.
Neil Young
#28. The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
Kelly Jones
#29. Welfare mothers make better lovers.
Neil Young
#30. We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
Neil Young
#31. Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.
Neil Young
#32. 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.
Neil Young
#33. Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
Neil Young
#34. I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people can't get what they need from listening to music anymore, so it is dying.
Neil Young
#35. You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.
Neil Young
#37. 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.
Neil Young
#38. The cafe door opened. A young man in dusty white leathers entered, and the wind blew in empty crisp packets and newspapers and ice cream wrappers in with him. They danced around his feet like excited children, then fell exhausted to the floor.
Neil Gaiman
#39. You know, the future's a huge, gigantic place. I have no idea what's going on out there, I'm just going to walk into it and see what happens.
Neil Young
#40. I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
Neil Young
#41. My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.
Dave Grohl
#42. Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.
Neil Young
#43. People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.
Neil Young
#44. Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.
Merry Clayton
#45. I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said ... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
Neil Gaiman
#46. I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound. Someone's always yellin', 'Turn him down'."
"Highlands" from "Time Out of Mind" (1997)
Bob Dylan
#47. Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.
Jesse Harris
#48. The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement ... Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.
Neil Simon
#49. 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.
Neil Young
#50. A new star has been born and Vera's performance brings alive the desolate life of O'Neil's young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.
Rajiv Kapoor
#51. It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.
Neil Gaiman
#52. Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
Amber Tamblyn
#53. Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.
Neil Diamond
#54. I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.
Jonathan Demme
#55. I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream
Neil Young
#56. There's more to a picture than meets the eye.
Neil Young
#57. Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.
Neil Young
#58. If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
Neil Young
#59. I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
Neil Young
#60. Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.
Neil Young
#61. 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.
Neil Young
#62. 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.
Neil Young
#63. Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I'm kinda fonda Wanda.
Neil Young
#64. I'm no longer young as I was, but I can tell you this, you never say no to the opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour's shut-eye. You follow me?
Neil Gaiman
#65. The devil fools with the best laid plans.
Neil Young
#66. The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.
Neil Young
#67. As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.
Neil Young
#68. 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.
Neil Young
#69. Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?"
"Coraline," said Coraline.
"And we don't know each other, do we?"
Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.
Neil Gaiman
#70. 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.
Neil Young
#71. Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.
Neil Young
#72. Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
Neil Young
#73. It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young ... or Ozzy Osbourne.
Kate Hudson
#74. Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.
Neil Young
#75. 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.
Neil Young
#76. There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.
Neil Young
#77. We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.
Neil Young
#78. I look at radio as gone ... Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.
Neil Young
#79. 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.
Neil Young
#80. When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.
Neil Jackson
#81. Steve and I caught Neil Young promoting his first solo album, his signature black Gibson plugged into a tiny Fender amp, blowing out the walls of the Bitter End.
Bruce Springsteen
#82. 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.
Neil Young
#83. My dad passed away ... and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.
Neil Young
#84. Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
Neil Young
#85. There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.
L. Neil Smith
#86. This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.
Neil Young
#87. The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
Neil Young
#88. What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.
Neil Young
#89. I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Neil Young
#90. I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Neil Young
#91. When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.
Neil Gaiman
#92. All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.
Neil Young
#93. True love opens the gates of time.
Neil Young
#94. This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.
Neil Young
#96. I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.
Neil Young
#97. The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
Neil Young
#98. 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.
Neil Young
#99. Keep on rockin' in the free world.
Neil Young
#100. When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
Neil Gaiman
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