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
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
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.
I like it if people enjoy what I'm doing, but if they don't, I also like it. I sometimes really like aggravating people with what I do. I think it's good for them.
There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.
Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.
My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.
You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
Rock and roll is here to stay.
My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.
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.