Neil Diamond Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Neil Diamond Quotes and Sayings
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Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
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Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
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I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
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I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
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I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
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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.
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I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
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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.
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It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.
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No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
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Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
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Songs are life in 80 words or less.
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Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
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Songwritng is what I do.
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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.
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There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
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