Neil Diamond Quotes - Page 3

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.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.

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

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

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.

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

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

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

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.

She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

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

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

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

I had always held everything in before.