Zitat des Tages von 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.
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.
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
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.
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
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.
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.
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
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.
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
Live music is better.
I just do what I do. I like to make music.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
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.
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.