Neil Young Quotes

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.

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

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

Bad news is just an excuse.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.

Love is a healer and I love you.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

I watched the needle take another man.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

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.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

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

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

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

Rock and Roll can never die.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

Piracy is the new radio.