Neil Young citáty

„Víte, to je na hudbě zvláštní. To nejhorší, co můžete udělat, je přemýšlet o tom. To je to nejubožejší.“

—  Neil Young

Zdroj: [Kohut, Joe, Kohut, John J., Rockecy aneb Kniha rockových citátů, Ladislav Šenkyřík, Volvox Globator, Praha, 1996, 1, 153, 107, 80-7207-016-9]

„Je lepší shořet, než vyhasnout.“

—  Neil Young

„Lepší je vyhořet, než zvolna zrezivět.“

—  Neil Young

„Mám rád zpětnou vazbu. Zpětná vazba je pro mě zvuk, který ovládáte, ale nemůžete ho zastavit. Zpětná vazba zní donekonečna. Je to skoro jako surfování.“

—  Neil Young

Zdroj: [Kohut, Joe, Kohut, John J., Rockecy aneb Kniha rockových citátů, Ladislav Šenkyřík, Volvox Globator, Praha, 1996, 1, 153, 104, 80-7207-016-9]

„Ze všech kytaristů, které jsem kdy slyšel, byl na elektrickou kytaru nejlepší Jimi Hendrix a JJ Cale.“

—  Neil Young

Zdroj: [Bezr, Ondřej, Zemřel JJ Cale, originální skladatel a kytarista, Claptonův vzor, http://kultura.idnes.cz/zemrel-j-j-cale-0pz-/hudba.aspx?c=A130727_144434_hudba_ob, 2013-07-27, 2013-07-27, iDnes.cz]

„Já si neumím svoji tvorbu nijak logicky vysvětlit. Pochází ze sféry nevědomí mého mozku. Když opravdu skládám nebo opravdu hraju, vůbec na nic nemyslím. Jsem prostě jen při tom, cítím to a jsem v tom. To právě chci; udělám všechno pro to, abych toho pocitu dosáhl.“

—  Neil Young

Zdroj: [Kohut, Joe, Kohut, John J., Rockecy aneb Kniha rockových citátů, Ladislav Šenkyřík, Volvox Globator, Praha, 1996, 1, 153, 38, 80-7207-016-9]

„It's better to burn out than to fade away.“

—  Neil Young

Misattributed

„One of my favorite album covers is On the Beach. Of course that was the name of a movie and I stole it for my record, but that doesn't matter. The idea for that cover came like a bolt from the blue. Gary and I traveled around getting all the pieces to put it together. We went to a junkyard in Santa Ana to get the tail fin and fender from a 1959 Cadillac, complete with taillights, and watched them cut it off a Cadillac for us, then we went to a patio supply place to get the umbrella and table. We picke up the bad polyester yellow jacket and white pants at a sleazy men's shop, where we watched a shoplifter getting caught red-handed and busted. Gary and I were stoned on some dynamite weed and stood there dumbfounded watching the bust unfold. This girl was screaming and kicking! Finally we grabbed a local LA paper to use as a prop. It had this amazing headline: Sen. Buckley Calls For Nixon to Resign. Next we took the palm tree I had taken around the world on the Tonight's the Night tour. We then placed all of these pieces carefully in the sand at Santa Monica beach. Then we shot it. Bob Seidemann was the photographer, the same one who took the famous Blind Faith cover shot of the naked young girl holding the airplane. We used the crazy pattern from the umbrella insides for the inside of the sleeve that held the vinyl recording. That was the creative process at work. We lived for that, Gary and I, and we still do.“

—  Neil Young, kniha Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

Zdroj: Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

„I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.“

—  Neil Young

„It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.“

—  Neil Young

„If you follow every dream, you might get lost.“

—  Neil Young

„Keep on rockin' in the free world.“

—  Neil Young

„And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.“

—  Neil Young

„I guess I'll call it sickness gone,
It's hard to say the meaning of this song.“

—  Neil Young

Ambulance Blues, referring to the drug related death of bandmate Danny Whitten
Song lyrics, On the Beach (1974)

„A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night.
You see us together,
Chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.“

—  Neil Young

Cinnamon Girl
Song lyrics, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

„Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.“

—  Neil Young

Don't Let It Bring You Down
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)

„I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky.
There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like getting high.
I was thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.“

—  Neil Young

After the Gold Rush
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)

„Shelter me from the powder
And the finger
Cover me with the thought
That pulled the trigger
Think of me
As one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone.“

—  Neil Young

Powderfinger
Song lyrics, Rust Never Sleeps (1978)

„Oh tell me where the answer lies,
Is it in the notebook behind your eyes?“

—  Neil Young

Speakin' Out
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)