Neil Young Quotes

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

I don't think there is much American music.

In America, music is more tightly categorized.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.

Rock music is niche.

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.

I used to think of 'alternative rock' as a radio format, kind of the way 'indie rock' used to have more meaning. But it means different things depending on where you are or what country you're in.

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.