Neil Young Quotes - Page 3

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever increasing economic disparity and the well-funded legislative decisions all favour corporate interests over the people's.

Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

It's only a dream Just a memory without anywhere to stay

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

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

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

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

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

Live music is better.

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.

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.

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

Imagination is my best friend.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it.