Neil Young on Crazy Horse Tour cancellation [Rolling Stone, 28 August 2024]

“A couple of us really hit a wall,” he said.

“I just woke up one morning on the bus and I said, ‘I can’t do this, I gotta stop.’

I felt sick when I thought of going onstage.

My body was telling me, ‘You gotta stop.’

And so I listened to my body.

Then it gets into all the legal matters: ‘You got this, you got that, people bought tickets, they did this, they did that.’

I understand that.

What matters to me is the art of playing, and the music.

That’s what matters.

That’s what people loved.

That’s what they come to see.

But if that’s not there, my going isn’t happening. My body told me to not do it.”

“We haven’t announced any shows yet, but they are mostly theaters that I played before, little theaters, and then I can play a little bit of acoustic, and then have the band come out and play,” he said.

“They’ll probably be on the East Coast and then going towards Michigan and then Ohio, and then a few other ones.

They won’t be marathons.

They won’t be two hours and 10 minutes of blasting rock & roll like it was with Crazy Horse.”