Top 200 Neil Young Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.”

— Neil Young

102. “Southern man better keep your head, don’t forget what your good book says.”

— Neil Young

103. “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

104. “Let’s roll for justice, let’s roll for truth. Let’s not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.”

— Neil Young

105. “If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you’re swimming.”

— Neil Young

106. “I don’t like war. I particularly don’t like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.”

— Neil Young

107. “I’ll never be Bob Dylan. He’s the master.”

— Neil Young

108. “All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don’t want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don’t want to.”

— Neil Young

109. “Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.”

— Neil Young

110. “It’s gotta be fun, if it’s not fun it’s not worth doing. Music is about having a good time feeling your soul, whether it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, just so long as you feel as much as you can. That’s the mission of Pono.”

— Neil Young

111. “Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?”

— Neil Young

112. “Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there’s a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it’s all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.”

— Neil Young

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

— Neil Young

114. “Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I’d rather have a band that could explode at any time.”

— Neil Young

115. “We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it’s degrading our music, not improving.”

— Neil Young

116. “The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.”

— Neil Young

117. “There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.”

— Neil Young

118. “Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.”

— Neil Young

119. “Took out Skinny Minnie, Long Tall Sally, and Short Fat Fanny, but I’m kinda fonda Wanda.”

— Neil Young

120. “Music lovers always want to hear the best. It’s about freedom of choice, we supply the music.”

— Neil Young

121. “Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you’re supporting everything they do.”

— Neil Young

122. “When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.”

— Neil Young

123. “I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That’s the kind of guy I am.”

— Neil Young

124. “There’s a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you’re the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that’s not normal.”

— Neil Young

125. “I’ve always been better moving than I am standing still.”

— Neil Young

126. “I’ll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance.”

— Neil Young

127. “Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don’t want new vinyl that’s from digital sources, because that’s a rip off.”

— Neil Young

128. “Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.”

— Neil Young

129. “Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.”

— Neil Young

130. “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.”

— Neil Young

131. “Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?”

— Neil Young

132. “I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell ’em I’m burning 90% cleaner than them.”

— Neil Young

133. “Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can’t stop until it’s done.”

— Neil Young

134. “The thing about my music is, there really is no point.”

— Neil Young

135. “As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you’re a jerk.”

— Neil Young

136. “Mother Goose, she’s on the skids. Sure ain’t happy, neither are the kids.”

— Neil Young

137. “I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.”

— Neil Young

138. “I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can’t play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.”

— Neil Young

139. “Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.”

— Neil Young

140. “Having no knowledge is sometimes exactly what is needed to find a solution, so I qualified.”

— Neil Young

141. “I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.”

— Neil Young

142. “And you can’t get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don’t notice it any more. And that’s what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it’s always temporary.”

— Neil Young

143. “I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I’m liberated.”

— Neil Young

144. “No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.”

— Neil Young

145. “Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.”

— Neil Young

146. “I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.”

— Neil Young

147. “Government can’t completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities.”

— Neil Young

148. “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

149. “I like it if people enjoy what I’m doing, but if they don’t, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it’s good for them.”

— Neil Young

150. “Bad news is just an excuse.”

— Neil Young