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
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 started off being chronological, and we tried to get a couple of songs from every period (of my career) that was acoustic, that related to this family of music we're doing. They were the predecessors. They were done when I was very young a lot of them, not all of them, but a lot 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.