Best 93 quotes of Neil Diamond on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Being lost is worth the being found.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

Home's the most excellent place of all.

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

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

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

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 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.

I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

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

I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.

I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

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 thank the Lord for the night time.

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.

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.

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

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

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

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

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.