Neil Young Quotes - Page 4

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

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.

Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.

In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

Every junkie is like a setting sun.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.