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.
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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.
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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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When I am not writing, I'm dying.
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I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
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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.
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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
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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.
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Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.
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I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
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He aint heavy, he's my brother.
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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.
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
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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.
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I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
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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.
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Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
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I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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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.
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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
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You're alive, you might as well be glad.
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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.
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
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I had always held everything in before.
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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.
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Very often the music comes first.
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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.
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