Neil Young Quotes

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.
Neil Young

Writing, Two, After

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

Music, Made, Before

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

Another, Industry, Thorn

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

Good, Done, Down

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

Old, Last, Five

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.
Neil Young

Different, Song, Playing

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.
Neil Young

Music, Real, Everything

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

Live, After, Playing

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.
Neil Young

Future, Long, Real

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

Old, Broken, Arrow

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

Pretending, Blues, Blue

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

Cool, Happy, Working

Live music is better.
Neil Young

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

Music, Rock, Jazz

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Neil Young

Change, Everything, Fresh

Rock and roll is here to stay.
Neil Young

Rock, Here, Stay

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

Good, Everything, Down

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

Done, Until, Stop

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

Play, Rather, Club

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

Music, Power, Together

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

Rock, Fed, Roll

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
Neil Young

Universe, Creating, Rockets

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

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
Neil Young

Rock, Real, Matters

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.
Neil Young

Through, Country, Against

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Nationality: Canadian

Born: November 12, 1945

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