Neil Diamond Quotes

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Song: Signs, Album: Beautiful Noise, 1976
  • When I am not writing, I'm dying.

  • I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

  • 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 Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.
  • I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

    Song: I Am..... I Said
  • 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.

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

    Song: Gold Don't Rust, Album: Tennessee Moon, 1996
  • I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

  • He aint heavy, he's my brother.

    Song: He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother, Album: Tap Root Manuscript, 1970
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Song: Lady Magdelene, Album: Serenade, 1974
  • Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

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

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

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

    Men  
    Song: Cracklin' Rosie
  • 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.

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

    Song: I'm a Believer
  • Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

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

    Song: Surviving The Life, Album: Beautiful Noise, 1976
  • 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 Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.
  • My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

    "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.
  • I had always held everything in before.

  • 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.

  • Very often the music comes first.

  • 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.

    "Neil Diamond: A 'Solitary Man' Enters The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 11, 2011.
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    Neil Diamond

    • Born: January 24, 1941
    • Occupation: Singer-songwriter