Top 200 Neil Young Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.”

— Neil Young

52. “I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn’t even on the map.”

— Neil Young

53. “In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.”

— Neil Young

54. “I don’t know if I’ll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I’m still singing, who knows.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

56. “I’m not a preacher, and I’m certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I’m kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.”

— Neil Young

57. “Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.”

— Neil Young

58. “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

59. “You were born to rock, you’ll never be an opera star.”

— Neil Young

60. “I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.”

— Neil Young

61. “People don’t normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what’s next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.”

— Neil Young

62. “Think I’ll roll another number for the road.”

— Neil Young

63. “I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he’s talking to?”

— Neil Young

64. “This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it’s a four-year story.”

— Neil Young

65. “Don’t think. The worst songs I’ve ever written happen when I think.”

— Neil Young

66. “This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.”

— Neil Young

67. “Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

69. “If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar.”

— Neil Young

70. “As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.”

— Neil Young

71. “Learning from other people is what music is all about.”

— Neil Young

72. “You’re as close to heaven as I’ll ever be.”

— Neil Young

73. “Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.”

— Neil Young

74. “Like a mountain that’s growing.”

— Neil Young

75. “Wise it is to comprehend the whole.”

— Neil Young

76. “We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We’ve got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.”

— Neil Young

77. “I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.”

— Neil Young

78. “As you go through life, you’ve got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.”

— Neil Young

79. “Every wave is new until it breaks.”

— Neil Young

80. “Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we’re had.”

— Neil Young

81. “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

82. “Imagination is my best friend.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

84. “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

85. “I try not to look back. I’m looking forward. I’m worried more about what I’m going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.”

— Neil Young

86. “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

87. “My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.”

— Neil Young

88. “Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.”

— Neil Young

89. “The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.”

— Neil Young

90. “If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

92. “You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.”

— Neil Young

93. “In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.”

— Neil Young

94. “Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.”

— Neil Young

95. “The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.”

— Neil Young

96. “Cocaine eyes won’t hide your face.”

— Neil Young

97. “Was he a doper or was he just a loser?”

— Neil Young

98. “That’s a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.”

— Neil Young

99. “Listen to your own voice. Don’t listen to someone else’s. To me the way to live is to always move forward – to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.”

— Neil Young

100. “I’ve seen the needle and the damage done.”

— Neil Young