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neil diamond (Singer)

I’m a ‘people pleaser’—I think most performers are, and when I’m in front of an audience I’ll try to make those folks happy any which way I can.
— neil diamond people
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.
— neil diamond inspiration
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.
— neil diamond life
I’ve never tried to be what I’m not. I am what I am: raggedy, over the top, heartfelt, emotional, reflective, passionate, angry and sad at times.
— neil diamond time
I’m throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don’t want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I’ve finally found somebody who’s up to the task of being my wife, because I’m very high maintenance.
— neil diamond love
Songwriting is different from music, although I dont deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
— Neil Diamond writing
Songwriting is the only real discipline Ive had in my whole life-thats why I hate it so much; I dont like imposing that kind of discipline on myself, but it has to be.
— Neil Diamond life
Stones has meant to me the things that hurt people, things that cause people pain.
— Neil Diamond pain
The lyrics arent simple, either. Theyre extremely difficult because Im trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
— Neil Diamond words
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 Im finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
— Neil Diamond song
One of the things Ive been panting to do, in fact, is write some music for a fencing-ballet, the movements, music and staging would seem to go naturally together.
— Neil Diamond music
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
— Neil Diamond writing
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
— Neil Diamond sin
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
— Neil Diamond life
Songs are so all-encompassing; theyre the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.
— Neil Diamond life
I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
— Neil Diamond success
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 art
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
— Neil Diamond people
I think that if I have one hope, one ambition, one aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.
— Neil Diamond hope
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
— Neil Diamond writing
Im not really comfortable in any one spot.
— Neil Diamond comfort
Ive always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
— Neil Diamond writer
Ive looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if Im in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
— Neil Diamond time
Ive always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes Ill have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
— Neil Diamond time
Of all the songs that Ive written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
— Neil Diamond sin
After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself.
— Neil Diamond self
Because my musical training has been limited, Ive never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
— Neil Diamond music
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldnt change that experience for anything.
— Neil Diamond change
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess Im partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
— Neil Diamond life
Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
— Neil Diamond time
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasnt expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
— Neil Diamond inspiration
I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.
— Neil Diamond art
I dont like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
— Neil Diamond music
I guess I havent gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
— Neil Diamond lost
Theres a mystery to writing, and you dont really know where most of it comes from.
— Neil Diamond writing
When youre on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
— Neil Diamond you
Im lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
— Neil Diamond art
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.
— Neil Diamond meaning
Its very difficult for me to say I love you but to sing I love you for me is easier.
— Neil Diamond love
No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
— Neil Diamond biology
Songwritng is what I do.
— Neil Diamond song

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