Neil Percival Young
On stage at Nelson Mandela Forum, Firenze, Italia, photo by Andrea Barsanti (22 June 2008)
Born: 12 November 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
After Young's parents divorced when he was twelve, he moved with his mother to Winnipeg, Manitoba where Neil enrolled at Earl Grey Junior High School and joined his first band. While at Kelvin High School he was in several bands, after dropping out he soon met Stephen Stills and Randy Bachman. Young drove his black hearse to Los Angeles with Bruce Palmer, they ran into Stephen Stills and Richie Furay on Sunset Boulevard, found a drummer and they were Buffalo Springfield. Young has been associated with at least fifteen bands and has had solo projects going through most of his career.
Biography from Wikipedia and Thrasher's Wheat
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- A studio, you go down the hall and see other people playing. You feel like you're in some kind of complex, like you're a soup. You're cream of mushroom and they're tomato. permalink
Neil Young - All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to. permalink
Neil Young - 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. permalink
Neil Young - As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more. permalink
Neil Young - As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk. permalink
Neil Young - As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none. permalink
Neil Young - As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. permalink
Neil Young - Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. permalink
Neil Young - Better to burn out than rust out. permalink
Neil Young - Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. permalink
Neil Young - Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. permalink
Neil Young - Getting sued by your record company for making 'uncommercial records' after twenty years in the business, that's even better than receiving a Grammy. permalink
Neil Young - Heart of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people there. permalink
Neil Young - I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play. permalink
Neil Young - 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. permalink
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