I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around. — Neil Young

Live music is better. — Neil Young

Learning from other people is what music is all about. — Neil Young

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

I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates. — Neil Young

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They’re very annoying. — Neil Young

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. — Neil Young

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. — Neil Young

So far, they’ve chosen not to, the beauty of this whole project is, all we’re doing is saying ‘hey, music could be a lot better.’. — Neil Young

The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. — Neil Young

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it’s degrading our music, not improving. — Neil Young

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It’s about freedom of choice, we supply the music. — Neil Young

The thing about my music is, there really is no point. — Neil Young

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

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

I dislike what has happened to the quality of the sound of music; there is little depth or feeling left, and people can’t get what they need from listening to music anymore, so it is dying. — Neil Young

Rock and roll is here to stay. — Neil Young

Let’s roll for justice, let’s roll for truth. Let’s not let our children grow up fearful in their youth. — Neil Young

There’s an edge to real rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all that matters. — Neil Young

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you’d see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That’s what rock ‘n’ roll is becoming. It’s your parents’ music. — Neil Young

I think in some ways–only in some ways–but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn’t leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work. — Neil Young

Love is a healer and I love you. — Neil Young

There’s two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right. — Neil Young

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you. — Neil Young

I am the most miserable person who ever lived,’ he said… ‘You are young, and in love,’ said Primus. ‘Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived. — Neil Gaiman

It’s a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down. — Neil Young

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

It’s going to take a lot of love to make things work out right. — Neil Young

I’m free to give my love, but you’re not the one I’m thinking of. — Neil Young

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down. — Neil Young

Only love can break your heart. — Neil Young

Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it’s on the vine. Handful of thorns And you’ll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE. — Neil Young

Welfare mothers make better lovers. — Neil Young

Keep on rockin’ in the free world. — Neil Young

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new. — Neil Young

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you? — Neil Young

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

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down. — Neil Young

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe. — Neil Young

This time [2016] is very similar to the ’60s, as far as I can tell. — Neil Young

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

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

True love opens the gates of time. — Neil Young

In the fields of opportunity it’s plowing time again. — Neil Young

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen. — Neil Young

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. — Neil Young

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I’d rather have a band that could explode at any time. — Neil Young

It’s the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like ‘Peace Trail’]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good. — Neil Young

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

Old man take a look at my life, I’m a lot like you were. — Neil Young

I think if you don’t have some obsession in your life, you’re dead. — Neil Young

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We’re finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio. — Neil Young

Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can. — Neil Young

The politics, I don’t understand it, I’m not happy, don’t feel good about it. — Neil Young

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels. — Neil Young

There is some blogging jerk out there who feels he can generalize his way to validity. — Neil Young

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. — Neil Young

There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead. I don’t feel like a satan but I guess I am…keep on rockin’ the free world. — Neil Young

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible––unless you have more drugs. — Neil Young

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream — Neil Young

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

Wise it is to comprehend the whole. — Neil Young

It’s better to burn out, than to fade away. — Neil Young

You were born to rock, you’ll never be an opera star. — Neil Young

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it. — Neil Young

My my, hey hey… Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my… Rock and roll will never die. — Neil Young

The cutthroat avenues of rock ‘n’ roll, I am fed up with. I don’t want anything to do with it. — Neil Young

I want to live, I want to give, I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold. — Neil Young

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water. — Neil Young

The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end. — Neil Young

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