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Neil Young
Canadian
Musician
About the author
I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#American
#Media
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#World
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Life
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Now
#Universe
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Now
It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#People
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Jazz
#Music
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Kids
#Support
#Country
#Troops
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Change
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,
Canadian
Musician
#People
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Play
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#First
#Power
#Music
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#War
I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Religious
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Music
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Country
#Act
#Terrorism
#Civil rights
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Time
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Want
#People
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#God
#People
#Saying
#Friends
#Attention
#Hate
#Punk
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.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Songs
#Life
#Day
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Sound
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Want
I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Key
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#People
#Today
#Trying
#Eyes
#Music
Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Music
#Business
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Earth
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Saying
#Ideas
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Songs
#Writing
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Music
#Mistake
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Religion
#Nature
#Creation
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#President
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Years
#Old
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Song
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Music
#Battle
#Opinions
#Danger
I just do what I do. I like to make music.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Music
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Time
#Day
#Song
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Gold
#Water
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,
Canadian
Musician
#Country
#Future
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Work
#Talent
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#People
#Man
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
Neil Young,
Canadian
Musician
#Years
#Old