Neil Young Quotes

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

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.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

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.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

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.

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

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.

True love opens the gates of time.

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

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

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

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

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Out of the blue and into the black

I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

Only love can break your heart.

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

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.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

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

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

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.