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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. -- Randy Bachman
There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young. -- Carrie Snodgress
I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players. -- Juliana Hatfield
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. -- Cornelia Funke
Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends. -- Amber Tamblyn
I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other. -- David Crosby
As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House. -- Zakk Wylde
I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's. -- Jack Irons
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately. -- Jonathan Demme
I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice, but it's something that grabs you, and the songs are so good. -- Lykke Li
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. -- Black Francis
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility. -- Mac DeMarco
I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there. -- Lykke Li
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2. -- Kelly Jones
You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. -- Joni Mitchell
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Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young. -- Graham Nash
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. -- Ville Valo
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance. -- Jewel
I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be. -- Ray LaMontagne
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. -- Dave Grohl
Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit. -- Jesse Harris
As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it. -- Jonathan Demme
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. -- Anne Lamott
Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life. -- Dave Grohl
I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious. -- Rick Rubin
I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty. -- Bradford Cox
You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young. -- Mike Lowry
Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to. -- Uncle Kracker
Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band -- David Crosby
I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from? -- Carrie Snodgress
I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good. -- Lykke Li
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. -- Bob Mould
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. -- Black Francis
Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. -- Dave Grohl
When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young. -- Madi Diaz
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first. -- Jesse Harris
My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic. -- Dave Grohl
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're the songs that last through time. -- Dolly Parton
Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun. -- Merry Clayton
It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to. -- Dave Grohl
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople. -- Inara George
My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too. -- Greta Salpeter
I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging. -- Adam Clayton
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I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible. -- Kurt Vile
It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne. -- Kate Hudson
My favorite time in music is probably 1970-75. Still Bill by Bill Withers, Harvest by Neil Young, John Prine's first album, James Taylor's One Man Dog-I hope I can bring the same sort of spirit I hear on those records. -- Amos Lee
I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself. -- Warren Zevon
I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My brother is eight years older than me and he was starting to get into things like that. -- James Walsh
I don't have a role model, but I certainly have always enjoyed Neil Young. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to watch him from the side of the stage on a couple of occasions, and his on-stage sound is incredible. -- Kevin Shields
Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name -- Stephen Stills
Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three. -- Stephen Malkmus
You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's. -- Elvis Costello
I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life. -- Jonathan Demme
There really are two different schools of songwriting-American and Canadian. It's interesting. You guys have this history of guys like Paul Williams and Jimmy Webb, and they're different than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. All those weird voices come out of Canada. That's because it's so cold here we can hardly open our mouth. We get much less light in Canada. No wonder the writing's dark. -- Fred Eaglesmith

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