Neil Diamond Quotes

Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.

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.

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

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

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.

Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

I had always held everything in before.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

Very often the music comes first.

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.

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.

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

I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.

Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

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.

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

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.

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.

I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

You're alive, you might as well be glad.

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.

I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.

As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

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.

Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

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.

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.