Neil Young

Singer

1945-11-12

Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist with a career spanning folk, rock, and country-influenced music. He is known for both solo work and collaborations with major rock bands.

Quotes by Neil Young

Rock and Roll can never die.
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It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
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It's better to burn out than to fade away.
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It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
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It's better to burn out than to fade away.
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Rock and Roll can never die.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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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.
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I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
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Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
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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.
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It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
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