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Neil Diamond Quotes
American
-
Musician
Born:
January 24
, 1941
See also:
Quotes about Neil Diamond
When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
Neil Diamond
You
,
Scenery
,
Miss
,
Lot
It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
Neil Diamond
Dog
,
Hot
,
Me
,
Dinner
,
Breakfast
,
Lunch
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
Neil Diamond
Change
,
Experience
,
Place
,
Grow
,
Grow Up
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
Neil Diamond
Work
,
Hard Work
,
Luck
,
Lucky
,
Key
,
Hard
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
,
Me
,
You
,
Difficult
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
,
Me
,
Mistakes
,
Better
,
Understand
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
Me
,
Feel
,
I Can
,
Meaning
,
Will
,
Why
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
Me
,
Song
,
Saying
,
Feel
,
Way
,
Always
I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
Neil Diamond
Music
,
Serious
,
Like
,
Deadly
No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
Neil Diamond
Biology
,
Program
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
Myself
,
Guitar
,
Hands
,
Looks
,
Sometimes
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
,
Hard Work
,
Home
,
Woman
,
Me
,
Feel
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
,
Morning
,
Great
,
Me
,
Perspective
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
,
Light
,
I Am
,
My Life
,
Deep
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
,
Body
,
Like
,
I Feel Like
,
Did
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
,
Myself
,
Perfection
,
Back
,
More
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Neil Diamond
Song
,
Training
,
Musicians
,
Never
,
Call
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
,
Sometimes
,
Wings
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
Neil Diamond
You
,
Writing
,
Mystery
,
Know
,
Most
,
Where
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
Neil Diamond
People
,
Think
,
Taste
,
Little
,
More
,
Just
I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
Neil Diamond
Success
,
Practice
,
Need
,
Fruits
,
Still
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
,
Be Nice
,
Now
,
Little
,
More
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
Neil Diamond
Blue
,
Song
,
Lyrics
,
Favorite
,
Lot
,
Took
Songwritng is what I do.
Neil Diamond
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond
Hardest
,
Songwriting
,
Part
,
Performing
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
Neil Diamond
Life
,
Words
,
Songs
,
Less
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