Neil Young
35 quotes
Biography
"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
"If you guarantee the postage, I'll mail you back the key."
"A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hand."
"And the world on a string doesn't mean a thing."
"He tried to do his best but he could not."
"It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down."
"Live music is better! Bumper stickers should be issued!"
"The economy was getting so bad, I had to lay myself off."
"Welfare mothers make better lovers."
"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
"One new feature or fresh take can change everything."
"It's cool to go places where working people are happy."
"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."
"Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record."
"I just do what I do. I like to make music."
"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 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."
"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."
"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."
"The thing about my music is, there really is no point."
"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
"Live music is better."
"All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?"
"I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature."
"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."