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
Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.
If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.
You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
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.
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.
We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.
And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.
Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.
The king is gone but he's not forgotten
Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.
We want computer games to move people emotionally, like a great piece of art, a great movie or a great piece of music.