I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first,… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I think that if I have one hope, one ambition, one aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been panting to do, in fact, is write some music for a fencing-ballet, the movements, music and… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“BE Lost On a painted sky Where the clouds are hung For the poet's eye You may find him If you may find him… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been panting to do, in fact, is write some music for a fencing-ballet, the movements, music and staging would… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
