Quotes By Neil Young

The first thing I'd do in the morning was have a little coffee and do a verse and chorus of a song. I had to learn the chords. I was playing the pump organ or piano, sometimes a guitar.

I especially love the pump organ on "Walkin' on the Road (to the Future)" and "The Wonder Won't Wait"-it adds this wheezing, groaning sound. It's almost as though another person, another set of lungs, is suddenly in the room.

I woke up one morning and I was reading a story about how all kinds of people were dying in hospitals because of misinformation about COVID. They were making bad decisions, and it was [coming from] this guy on Spotify.

Because the record companies, in their ultimate wisdom, seeing what a great thing digital was, they sold all the places where they made records. Now people want records and they haven't got a facility to make them in, so it takes months and months and months to get vinyl. Vinyl is ultimately much better.

You get to a point in life where things are happening everywhere around you, and your friends are going away and not coming back. Things change.

I do other projects-I'm building an outdoor model-train layout, which has been a lot of fun. It just takes me away into another world. There's no pressure to it. I have a buddy who helps me build it. We spend days and days and days and weeks and months on these. If you're stuck, you've got to get out of it. You've got to get way out of it.

I think that was taken in the fifties, probably Toronto. My dad was working for the Toronto Globe and Mail at the time. He's just walking down the street. It's a great picture of him. There's somebody who knows where they're going!

The tour can keep on going with another headliner. It's about sustainability and renewability in the future, loving Earth for what it is. We want to do the right thing. That's kind of the idea.

We have to get to the point where we all come together, and we realize that we're all on the same Earth, and there's one way we can fix it.

We need to grow food, and we need to grow fuel. Imagine if, instead of dust rising into the sky, the carbon started returning to the Earth.

I don't feel connected to the whole vision of the record in the same way-it's got all these characters. The point of view of "Love Earth" and the point of view of "Break the Chain" are so different. It's not the same thing, but it is the same thing.

There's whistling coming out of a forest somehow; there's an entire dead species of tree right there in front of you, and not just a few trees, it goes for miles and miles. So, with that background, and then knowing what's going on in the world . . . I don't like to dwell on it much, but I think everybody's terrified.

I play the songs, and we're doing it live, and everything happens, and then we capture it like that. Rick is a genius. It's so easy, because he loves music. You're not gonna find a person who loves music more than Rick. He's dedicated to preserving it.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.