Neil Young Quotes - Page 5

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

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.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

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.

You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

Keep it moving. Don't hoard. Money's no good, get rid of it. Turn it into people doing things. Turn it into jobs. Turn it into happiness...The more people I employ, the happier I am - that means my money's goin' into other people's lives, and if I can give 'em something to create that they can be happy with, that's great.

Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.