Best 237 quotes of Neil Young on MyQuotes

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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.

Bad news is just an excuse.

Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.

Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

Every junkie is like a setting sun.

Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

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

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

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

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.