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Neil Diamond
American
Musician
About the author
It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Love
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Life
#Words
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Now
#Music
#Theory
Songwritng is what I do.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
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 I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Saying
#Song
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,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Will
#Meaning
When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Writing
#Mystery
I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Music
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Song
#Training
#Musicians
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Song
#Favorite
I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Guitar
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Experience
#Change
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,
American
Musician
#Perfection
#Attitude
#Inspiration
I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Success
#Practice
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#People
#Taste
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Work
#Key
#Hard work
#Luck
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
Neil Diamond,
American
Musician
#Want
#Words
#Will
#Thought
#First
#Idea
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Life
#Song
#Perspective