Quotes

“Better to burn out than rust out.” Neil Young

“I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.” Neil Young

“I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.” Neil Young

“It's better to burn out than it is to rust.” Neil Young

“It's better to burn out, than to fade away.” Neil Young

“I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.” Neil Young

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

“I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.” Neil Young

“I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.” Neil Young

“Rock and roll is here to stay.” Neil Young

“When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.” Neil Young

“Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.” Neil Young

“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.” Neil Young

“I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.” Neil Young

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

“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.” Neil Young

“I just do what I do. I like to make music.” Neil Young

“I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.” Neil Young

“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.” Neil Young

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

“I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.” Neil Young

“I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.” Neil Young

“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.” Neil Young

“I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.” Neil Young

“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.” Neil Young

“I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.” Neil Young

“It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.” Neil Young

“It's cool to go places where working people are happy.” Neil Young

“Live music is better.” Neil Young

“My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.” Neil Young