Neil Percival Young was born on 12th November 1945 in Toronto, Canada. He is a famous Canadian- American singer, lyricist, musician, and activist. Young went to the Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute in 1959. Young had a keen interest in listening to rock 'n roll, doo-wop, R&B, country, and western pop music. Elvis Presley was his idol and he was greatly inspired by his works. He played the ukulele from a very young age.
Young's major success as a songwriter came with 'Flying on the Ground is Wrong'. After the break-up of his band Buffalo Springfield, he started recording solo songs. His first solo was Neil Young (1969).
He received several Grammy and Juno awards. He had a very long career. He combined folk, rock, and country music. He was called the 'Godfather of Grunge'. He directed several films like Journey Through the Past, Rush Never Sleeps, Greendale. He also received the Order of Manitoba in 2006.
Some of the most famous Neil Young Quotes are as follows.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
When you are not focused enough, you tend to get lost. Having a single aim helps you have a clear vision of what you are doing, and you are more likely to succeed as you are putting in your efforts in one place and will give you a greater result and success.
And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.
Life is never easy; it is never meant to be. Life throws challenges at you all the time, and with every challenge and obstacle that you face, you become stronger day by day, and you learn from your bad experiences, and they become lifelong lessons for you.
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
One should always enjoy each and every moment of his life. He should have fun and be grateful. The world is free, and you should do whatever you wish to and fulfill every wish that you have. You should live an extraordinary life and surpass the ordinary.
Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
One should never ever let the bad situations pull them down. They should always seek help from others. Asking for help is an act of strength, not cowardice. When you ask for help from the people who love you, they will help you to your thick and thin and will help you to overcome every difficult situation in life.
It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
One should never be bothered by what others think of them or what he means to others. Life is not a competition to prove your worth. Those who love you will value and remember you, and those who don't, no matter what you do, you can never be important to them. Being a priority of someone should not mean much to you. You should not let that decide what kind of a person you are.
This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.
This is a very thoughtful quote. The world is spinning round and has become very old, and it is really strange that the tall trees are not taken or cut down already. This is a metaphorical statement. Old and tall are contrasting, which shows that few things persist for a long time.
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When we were strangers, I liked you from afar when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart.
When a person is a stranger to you, and you still like them, you try to keep it to yourself and respect the space and privacy of that stranger, but when that stranger becomes your lover, you pour your heart to make that person yours. You love them endlessly and unconditionally.
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
There are people in this world who have very high thoughts but are never really keen to apply those thoughts in real life. Thinking and practicing are two different things. You should never boast of having high ethics and morals; you should keep following and doing them in actual practice.
There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high.
Music can take you to the land of the unknowns. It makes you feel things. Some songs remind you of a place, a person, an object, or anything else, and sometimes we get to that fantasy world so much that we forget the real.
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream.
A dreamer is the one you think, strategize, and executes to make his dream come true. A dream is just an abstract idea. A dream is incomplete without dreamers and vice versa. There should be a purpose and someone to fulfill that purpose in life.
As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
Few things are better left unsaid or talked about. Mystique is something that one feels and discovers, and whenever you try to talk about it, the magic that it has in itself fades away.
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It's hard enough losing without the confusion of knowing I tried.
When you try for something, you start to give in everything you have. When you give your best, you start expecting a lot. You make up your mind to win that thing, and when you lose, even after giving your best, it becomes hard for you to accept it.
It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
It is always better to work harder than to become useless. When you work harder, you might feel pain, disappointment, and many other obstacles, but it is always better to try than to be of no use at all.
Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
Music is the best therapy. No matter how happy, sad, melancholic, depressed, or excited we become, music heals everyone and soothes everyone's mind. Music helps us to express how we feel deep inside. It helps us to grow and move on in life and teaches us to value our emotions.
I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.
When you don't have any obsession in life, you become lifeless. Having an aim, a goal, or an obsession is what makes us human. It is a human quality. When we lose that drive within us, we become just like animate objects.
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.
The future is unpredictable. One never knows what is going to happen and how is it going to happen. When we worry, we suffer twice. Hence, we should just move on and face whatever awaits us.
Having no knowledge is sometimes exactly what is needed to find a solution, so I qualified.
One should never be very proud of himself. Not knowing sometimes is the best quality that attracts the nicest solutions. When one knows that he has no knowledge of something very particular, he becomes open to learning and thereby, he paves the way to great solutions and ideas.
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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
Earth is compared to a flower that is constantly pollinating. Earth is always creating something new. It is always evolving. If something is getting destroyed, a lot more things are being created on the other hand.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
God does not make religion, it is the concept of the human mind. God has created this vast, beautiful nature, and we all are a part of this. We should treat everyone the same. We are all equal, and there is one supreme force that directs us through life.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
To surpass the mundane, we need to come up with new ideas. When we do the same thing every day, we get the same results, and there is no scope for improvement and change. We should always try new ways and enjoy the change in life.
