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
We want 'Majestic' to play you just as much as you play it,
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.
To protect our freedoms, it seems like we're going to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
I think it's a metal version of Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan ... Metal Folk protest?
It's kinda like a toothpaste commercial, but there's no product.
It makes a difference. Any time you plant anything, it's when things grow.
For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
Live music is better.
You gotta keep changing. Shirts, old ladies, whatever.
We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.