Neil Young Quotes - Page 9

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.

The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

We have to understand that people are different. I don't know, if we really understand who we're dealing with over there.

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

I want to be a reflection of what's going on and let people draw their own conclusions.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

Nothing is perfect...We're really more interested in what we're saying than how we're saying it.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

I like to go in right away as soon as I have things.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.