Music Quotes

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 just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

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.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the '60s and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock'n'roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

No, I wasn't really influenced by that scene. Most of the songs on that album had been written well before Sex Pistols were ever heard of. "The Thrasher" was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby Stills & Nash in the mid-'70s. Do you know Lynyrd Skynyrd almost ended up recording "Powderfinger" before my version came out? We sent them an early demo of it because they wanted to do one of my songs.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

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

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.