Neil Diamond Quotes about Writing

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 I am in my life, a really good place.

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 I am in my life, a really good place.

Neil Diamond

Meaningful, Song, Writing

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

Neil Diamond

Writing, Wings, Ideas

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

Neil Diamond

Writing, Mystery, Knows

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

Neil Diamond

Growing Up, Writing, Years

"Neil Diamond: A 'Solitary Man' Enters The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 11, 2011.

My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

Neil Diamond

Writing, Thinking, Years

"Neil Diamond: A 'Solitary Man' Enters The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 11, 2011.

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

Neil Diamond

Writing, Pages, Speak

Song: Be, Album: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 1973

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

Neil Diamond

Writing, Dying

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.

Neil Diamond

Song, Writing, Lap

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.

Neil Diamond

Writing, Heart, Light

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.

Neil Diamond

Song, Moving, Writing