Neil Young Song Quotations

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

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 go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

There's nothing I did before 'Ohio' that would be in the same category -- and very little since. It's a kind of a political song as well as a feeling song, and it's dated to a particular incident, kinda like 'Rockin' in the Free World.' I just don't write that many of them.

It was the most beautiful song I have ever heard in my life. I couldn't get enough of it.

I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

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

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

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

Imagination is my best friend.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

True love opens the gates of time.

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

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

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

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.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

... my songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio...

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.