Neil Diamond Quotes

Songs are life in 80 words or less.
Neil Diamond

Life, Words, Less

It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.
Neil Diamond

Love, Difficult, Sing

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
Neil Diamond

Biology, Program, Majored

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

Hardest, Performing, Easiest

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

Training, Song, Might

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.
Neil Diamond

Mind, Between, Body

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

Writing, Mystery

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
Neil Diamond

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.
Neil Diamond

Time, Mistakes, Help

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.
Neil Diamond

Music, Words, Thought

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

Change, Experience, Place

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil Diamond

Life, Great, Morning

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

Music, Serious, 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.
Neil Diamond

Work, Home, Someone

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
Neil Diamond

Success, Practice, Enjoying

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

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

Work, Hard, Luck

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.
Neil Diamond

Why, Meaning, Songs

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

Song, Took, Favorite

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.
Neil Diamond

Music, Nice, Different

Songwritng is what I do.
Neil Diamond

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.
Neil Diamond

Great, Woman, Same

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.
Neil Diamond

Attitude, Different, Perfection

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.
Neil Diamond

Life, Good, Deep

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
Neil Diamond

Music, Great, Heart

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Nationality: American

Born: January 24, 1941

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