Neil Young Quotes

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Neil Young

Profession : Singer

Birth : November 12, 1945

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Neil Young

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

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

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?

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Live music is better.

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It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

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One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

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Rock and roll is here to stay.

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

Neil Young

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

Neil Young

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

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As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

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When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

Neil Young

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

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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