Quotes By Neil Young

I still remember "the mighty Cros" [David Crosby] visiting the ranch in his van. That van was a rolling laboratory that made Jack Casady's briefcase look like chicken feed. Forget I said that! Was my mike on?

Sometimes, a smooth process heralds the approach of atrophy or death.

I won't say anything 'cause no one ever listens to me, anyway. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record.

It's like the kettle killed itself rather than be used by me.

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

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

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

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

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.

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.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

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

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

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.