Neil Diamond Quotes
"Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest."
- Neil Diamond
"Songs are life in 80 words or less."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Life, Songs, Words)
"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
(Related: Music, Now, Theory)
"Songwritng is what I do."
- Neil Diamond
"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
(Related: Saying, Song, Songs)
"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
(Related: Meaning, Songs, Will)
"When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery."
- Neil Diamond
"No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program."
- Neil Diamond
"There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Mystery, Writing)
"I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Music)
"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Musicians, Song, Training)
"Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Favorite, Song)
"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
(Related: Guitar)
"Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Change, Experience)
"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
(Related: Inspiration, Attitude, Perfection)
"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Success, Practice)
"I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: People, Taste)
"I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part."
- Neil Diamond
(Related: Work, Hard work, Key, Luck)
"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
(Related: Music, Thought, Idea, First, Want, Will, Words)
"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
(Related: Life, Perspective, Song)