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

Neil Diamond Quotes

American - Musician Born: January 24, 1941

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

Love, I Love You, Very

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

Performing, More, Expecting

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, Feel, Like

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

Scenery, You, Lot

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

Grow, Although, Easiest

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword. Neil Diamond

Hands, Move, Looked

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

Feel, Affect, Will

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

Song, Chelsea, Slightly

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

Think, I Think, Most

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

Practice, Fruits, Still

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

Songwriting, Easiest, Part

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. Neil Diamond

Moment, Doing, Hers

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

Deep, My Life, Good Place

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. Neil Diamond

Parent, Game, Show

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

Luck, Lucky, Plays

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. Neil Diamond

Song, Always, Been

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

Song, Been, Musical

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

Thought, Flight, Idea

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

Music, Like, Deadly

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

Writing, Mystery, Most

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

Biology, Program

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

Songwriting, More, Deny

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

Song, Lot, Took

Songwritng is what I do. Neil Diamond

Songs are life in 80 words or less. Neil Diamond

Words, Songs, Less

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. Neil Diamond

Love, Back, Very

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