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" 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. "

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" 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

Music

Opinions

" The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it. "

Neil Young

Want

Rock

" 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. "

" I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. "

Neil Young

One Day

Day

" 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

Myself

Before

" The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe. "

" To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. "

" I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow. "

" 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. "

" I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Neil Young

Fox

American

" Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. "

" Rock and roll is here to stay. "

" Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do. "

" I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real. "

" I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. "

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

" I just do what I do. I like to make music. "

Neil Young

Make

Music

" It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. "

" There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. "

" I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated. "

" 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. "

" Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. "

" 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. "