Neil Young Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

  Neil Young

  Song, Writing, Ideas

• I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

  Neil Young

  Song, Writing, Two

• All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

  Neil Young

  Writing, Want, Down And

• If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

  Neil Young

  Song, Writing, Guitar

• My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

  Neil Young

  Writing, Play, People

  Source: the-talks.com

• I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

  Neil Young

  Couple, Writing, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

  Neil Young

  Song, Real, Writing

  "For Neil Young, the Trump Era Feels a Lot Like the ’60s". Interview With Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. December 11, 2016.

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