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.

Neil Diamond

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• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

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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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• 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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• To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

  

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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.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason