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
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
Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly… — 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
Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life. — 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
As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that… — 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 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
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
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
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible. — 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
I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing… — 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
