Neil Diamond Quotes
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I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
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I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
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Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.
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I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
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Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.
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When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
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It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.
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I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
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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.
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Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
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Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
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The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
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Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.
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I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
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You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.
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Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
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As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
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All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
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I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
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My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.