Neil Diamond Quotes

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

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.

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.

The art of love is who you share it with.

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.

The truth always stays the same.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

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

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

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

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

I had always held everything in before.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Very often the music comes first.

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

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

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

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

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 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.