Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC OMis 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. He released his first album in 1968 and has since forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, spanning over 45 years and 35 studio...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth12 November 1945
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.
There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high
Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.
The devil fools with the best laid plans.
I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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.
As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
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.
Live music is better.
I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.
All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.