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
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
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.
This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.
I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.
I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.
I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.
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.
Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
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.
Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.