Neil Diamond famous quotes

Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.
-- Neil Diamond

#Sex #Hands #Touching

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

#Song #Lakes #Surprise

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

#Growing Up #Brooklyn #Grows

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Running #Teenager #Dna

Songs are life in 80 words or less.
-- Neil Diamond

#Song

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

#Mean #Discipline #Acting

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

#Songwriting #Performing #Hardest

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Writing #Fans #Ships

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Mistake #Voice #Perfection

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Character #Emotional #Guitar

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

#Nice #Different #Would Be

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

#People #Parent #Young

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

#Song #Musical #Training

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Insecure #Keys #Shy

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 #Morning #Perspective

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Dad #School #Singing

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

#Missing You #Missing #Scenery

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

#Who I Am #Trying #Whole Life

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

#Writing #Mystery

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

#Play #Singing #Serial Killer

Songwritng is what I do.
-- Neil Diamond

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Song #Matter #Heritage

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

#Hard Work #Play #Keys

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

#Different #Exciting

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Voice #Healthy #Body

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Play #Focus #Trying

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Thinking #Two #Wife

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

#Romantic #Heart #Fire

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

#Needs #Born #Stills

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

#Love #Heart #Simple

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

#Inspirational #Alive #Might

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Dream #Alcohol #Drug

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

#Lying #Rocks #Surprise

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

#Relationship #Winning #Trying

Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
-- Neil Diamond

#Sadness #Unheard

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

#Cancer #Sadness #Tired

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

#Sadness #Treasure #Needs

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Song #Writing #Lap

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
-- Neil Diamond

#Said #Lost #Explanation

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

#Giving

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
-- Neil Diamond

#Love #Love Is #Unkind

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

#Husband #Pride #Numbers

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

#Philosophy #Men #Lame

The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
-- Neil Diamond

#Lying #Philosophy #Sleep

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

#Philosophy #Doors #Size

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Philosophy #Blue #Jeans

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Religious #Song #Voice

I thank the Lord for the night time.
-- Neil Diamond

#Religious #Night #Religion

The art of love is who you share it with.
-- Neil Diamond

#Art #Love Is #Share

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

#Profound #Said #Chairs

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

#Insanity #Crunchy #Neat

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

#Names #Young #Used

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

#Infidelity #Adultery #Found

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

#Lying #Suffering #Doubt

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

#Song #Blue #My Favorite

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

#Giving Up #Wife #Way

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

#Thinking #People #Taste

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

#Practice #Fruit #Needs

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Heart #Writing #Light

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

#Meaningful #Song #Writing

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 #Age #Body

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

#Hard Work #Home #Needs

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

#Journey #Wife #Maintenance

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

#Soccer #Mom #Dad

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Song #Ideas #Guy

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

#Respect #Peers #Enough

He aint heavy, he's my brother.
-- Neil Diamond

#Brother #My Brother #Heavy

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Self Esteem #Creative #Littles

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

#Wife #Maintenance #Tasks

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

#I Love You #Easier #Difficult

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Morning #Night #Play

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

#Writing #Wings #Ideas

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 #Moving #Writing

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

#Song #Records #Wells

Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.
-- Neil Diamond

#Money #Money Talks #Walks

Being lost is worth the being found.
-- Neil Diamond

#Irony #Lost #Found

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .
-- Neil Diamond

#Guitar #Humming

Home's the most excellent place of all.
-- Neil Diamond

#Home #Excellent

When I am not writing, I'm dying.
-- Neil Diamond

#Writing #Dying

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless
-- Neil Diamond

#Pages #Speak #Timeless

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 #Inspiration #Perfection

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

#Dream #4th Of July #Want

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

#Serious #Reincarnation

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.
-- Neil Diamond

#Giving #Soul #Pieces

The truth always stays the same.
-- Neil Diamond

#Expression

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

#Sleepy #Misinterpretation

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

#Moving #Way #Groove

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

#Men #Tunes #Needs