Neil Young quotes

“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

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

— Neil Young

“The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

“The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.”

— Neil Young

“The thing about my music is, there really is no point.”

— Neil Young

“There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.”

— Neil Young

“We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.”

— Neil Young

“With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.”

— Neil Young

“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?”

— Neil Young