Top 200 Neil Young Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream.”

— Neil Young

52. “I’m free to give my love, but you’re not the one I’m thinking of.”

— Neil Young

53. “Ain’t singing for Pepsi, ain’t singing for Coke, I don’t sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.”

— Neil Young

54. “Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can’t describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

56. “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

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Neil Young

68. “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

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

76. “Rock and Roll can never die.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

78. “Like a mountain that’s growing.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

84. “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

85. “Imagination is my best friend.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

88. “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

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

92. “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

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

— Neil Young

94. “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

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

97. “Most people think it’s the other way around: that time is going faster and we’re doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we’re cramming so much into it.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

100. “I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.”

— Neil Young