Neil Young Quotes - Page 7

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.

Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

Like a mountain that's growing.

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

It's injustice. It's wrong. [The pipeline companies] didn't get the permission. They didn't do the things they should have done in the first place. They tried to just bully their way through there and they got stopped. But they're not really stopping.

Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.

The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.

I have no idea who's steering, and I don't really care .. I just keep going whatever the inclination is ... there are threads that are continuous and hold everything together and a major thread is country music.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.