Neil Diamond Quotes

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.

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.

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

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I thank the Lord for the night time.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

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

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

Home's the most excellent place of all.

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

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

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

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

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.

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

Songwritng is what I do.

Being lost is worth the being found.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

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.

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.

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

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

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

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

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

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.

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