Song Quotes by Neil Sedaka

Much of my music is inspired by what I heard at picnics and weddings and bar mitzvahs.

— Neil Sedaka

My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n' roll and pop.

— Neil Sedaka

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.

— Neil Sedaka

I have a Baldwin in my L.A. apartment, a Steinway in my New York apartment, and a Kawai plexiglass grand piano in…

— Neil Sedaka

Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless…

— Neil Sedaka

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always…

— Neil Sedaka

Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.

— Neil Sedaka

Between 1963 and 1975, I worked very little. The Beatles had come to New York and changed music - all the solo…

— Neil Sedaka

Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was…

— Neil Sedaka

I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually,…

— Neil Sedaka

I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered…

— Neil Sedaka

I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have…

— Neil Sedaka

I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a…

— Neil Sedaka

The spiritual writing of the song is where you're chosen as a vehicle, and it comes from something up above. You don't…

— Neil Sedaka