Neil Young Quotes - Page 11

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.

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

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.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

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.

My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.

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

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

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

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

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

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

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.