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Neil Young [1945-0] Canadian

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Neil Percival Young, OC OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, producer, director and screenwriter. He began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield together with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1969.

Music, Nature, Business, Change, Cool, Religion, Space

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It's better to burn out, than to fade away.		101
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.		102
Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.	Nature	103
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.		104
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.	Music	105
It's cool to go places where working people are happy.	Cool	106
The thing about my music is, there really is no point.	Music	107
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.		108
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.	Music	109
I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.		110
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.	Nature, Religion	111
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.		112
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.	Change	113
Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.		114
Rock and roll is here to stay.		115
I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.		116
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.		117
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.	Business	118
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.		119
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.		120
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.		121
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.		122
I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.		123
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.		124
Live music is better.		125
I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.		126
I just do what I do. I like to make music.		201
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.		202
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.		203
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?		204
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.		205
I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.		206
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.		207
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.		208
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.		209
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.		210
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.		211
We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.		212
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.		213
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.		214
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.		215
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.		216
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.		217
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.		218
The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.	Space	219
There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.		220
I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.		221
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.		222
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.		223
I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.		224
When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.		225

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