Top 51 Quotes by Neil Young

About Neil Young

These are some quotes by Canadian author Neil Young Musician, who was born on November 12, 1945.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Neil Young

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

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

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

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

Neil Young

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