Neil Diamond Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
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I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.
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Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
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It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
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God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.
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I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
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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.
