Neil Diamond Quotes

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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.

Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

Well, I Am ... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

I had always held everything in before.

Being lost is worth the being found.

I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am," I cried
"I am," said I
And I am lost, and I can't even say why
Leavin' me lonely still

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When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

Songwritng is what I do.

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

The art of love is who you share it with.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

I Am ... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.

Very often the music comes first.

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.

And each one there has one thing shared;
They have sweated beneath the same sun,
Look up in wonder at the same moon,
And wept when it was all done,
For being done too soon.

Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

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Lost
On a painted sky
Where the clouds are hung
For the poet's eye
You may find him
If you may find him
There
On a distant shore
By the wings of dreams
Through an open door
You may know him
If you may

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

Be ... As a page that aches for a word
Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.

She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

Home's the most excellent place of all.

Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.

Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.

I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.