Neil Diamond Quotes

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.

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

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

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

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

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

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

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.

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

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

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

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The art of love is who you share it with.

Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I thank the Lord for the night time.

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.

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

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.