Neil Diamond Quotes
Top 88 wise famous quotes and sayings by Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Neil Diamond on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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.
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.
Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
I Am ... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
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 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.
When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
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.
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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.
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.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
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.
I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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.
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.
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.
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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.
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.
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.
Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.