Neil Diamond Quotes - Page 4

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.

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 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.

My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

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

He aint heavy, he's my brother.

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

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

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

When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.

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

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

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've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

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

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.