Top 200 Neil Young Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Out of the blue and into the black.”

— Neil Young

2. “Hey, hey, my, my, rock and roll will never die.”

— Neil Young

3. “I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream.”

— Neil Young

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4. “There’s more to a picture than meets the eye.”

— Neil Young

5. “The king is gone but he’s not forgotten.”

— Neil Young

6. “Live music is better.”

— Neil Young

7. “I want to live, I want to give, I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.”

— Neil Young

8. “One good thing about the past is that you can’t change it. So there’s no reason to go back. It’s there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what’s happening next.”

— Neil Young

9. “Don’t let it bring you down. It’s only castles burning, find someone who’s turning, and you will come around.”

— Neil Young

10. “It doesn’t mean that much to me to mean that much to you.”

— Neil Young

11. “Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.”

— Neil Young

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12. “Only love can break your heart.”

— Neil Young

13. “Holding back is so close to stealing.”

— Neil Young

14. “Rock and roll is here to stay.”

— Neil Young

15. “The devil fools with the best laid plans.”

— Neil Young

16. “The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.”

— Neil Young

17. “Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children’s days.”

— Neil Young

18. “In the fields of opportunity it’s plowing time again.”

— Neil Young

19. “It’s a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.”

— Neil Young

20. “It’s easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.”

— Neil Young

21. “You can’t be 20 on Sugar Mountain.”

— Neil Young

22. “Old man take a look at my life, I’m a lot like you were.”

— Neil Young

23. “You are like a hurricane, there’s calm in your eyes, and I’m getting blown away.”

— Neil Young

24. “It’s cool to go places where working people are happy.”

— Neil Young

25. “Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.”

— Neil Young

26. “Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.”

— Neil Young

27. “Though my problems are meaningless, that don’t make them go away.”

— Neil Young

28. “True love opens the gates of time.”

— Neil Young

29. “There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high.”

— Neil Young

30. “It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.”

— Neil Young

31. “Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes in between shows with his cinnamon girl.”

— Neil Young

32. “Nothing is perfect in God’s perfect plan.”

— Neil Young

33. “If you follow every dream, you might get lost.”

— Neil Young

34. “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we’re going. There’s something ahead worth fighting for.”

— Neil Young

35. “One new feature or fresh take can change everything.”

— Neil Young

36. “Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.”

— Neil Young

37. “I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.”

— Neil Young

38. “Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.”

— Neil Young

39. “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

40. “Love is a healer and I love you.”

— Neil Young

41. “Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.”

— Neil Young

42. “It’s going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.”

— Neil Young

43. “Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.”

— Neil Young

44. “The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.”

— Neil Young

45. “Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.”

— Neil Young

46. “Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.”

— Neil Young

47. “It was then I knew I’d had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand.”

— Neil Young

48. “Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.”

— Neil Young

49. “Every junkie is like a setting sun.”

— Neil Young

50. “I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream.”

— Neil Young