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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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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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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Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
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It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.
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My word is Iron
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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.
