Top 100 Quotes About Neil Diamond: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Neil Diamond

#1. While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

Bill Dedman

#2. Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.

Jason Aldean

#3. Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

Merry Clayton

#4. Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.

Mark Hoppus

#5. One year later, I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert by a guy named Scrunchie!

Matt Groening

#6. At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

Dan Hill

#7. If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.

Evan Spiegel

#8. I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

Robert Wyatt

#9. Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

Michael Buble

#10. Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there.

Shawn Amos

#11. I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.

Nick Lowe

#12. First I tried some Neil Diamond, thinking that if anything was going to make the undead run for the hills it would be a nice, loud rendition of Cracklin' Rosie. But those coldsickles actually seemed to enjoy it. Very disturbing.

Mike Cooley

#13. I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

Cat Power

#14. And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

Gerald Scarfe

#15. Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful
Neil Diamond or something. I should've made that part of my gift form the gods: better elevator tunes.

Rick Riordan

#16. Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

Mark Helprin

#17. I Am ... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.

Neil Diamond

#18. 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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#19. I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

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#20. Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

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#21. I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.

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#22. Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

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#23. I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

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#24. I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

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#25. I had always held everything in before.

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#26. Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

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#27. I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 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.

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#28. I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

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#29. Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

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#30. Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.

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#31. 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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#32. I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

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#33. Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

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#34. When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

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#35. I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

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#36. The art of love is who you share it with.

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#37. 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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#38. I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

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#39. I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

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#40. When I am not writing, I'm dying.

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#41. Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

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#42. Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

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#43. Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

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#44. Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

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#45. The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

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#46. I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.

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#47. 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.

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#48. As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.

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#49. Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

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#50. Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

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#51. I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

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#52. Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

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#53. Be ... As a page that aches for a word
Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

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#54. 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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#55. He aint heavy, he's my brother.

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#56. Of all the songs that I've 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.

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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

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#60. 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.

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#61. Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.

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#62. Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

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#63. I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

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#64. 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.

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#65. I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.

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#66. 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.

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#67. My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

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#68. I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

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#69. I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

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#70. 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.

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#71. Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.

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#72. Songwritng is what I do.

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#73. Well, I Am ... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

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#74. 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.

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#75. 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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#76. Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

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#77. I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

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#78. September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.

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#79. While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.

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#80. The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

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#81. 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.

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#82. I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

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#83. You're alive, you might as well be glad.

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#84. You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

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#85. I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

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#86. I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am," I cried
"I am," said I
And I am lost, and I can't even say why
Leavin' me lonely still

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#87. It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

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#88. 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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#89. I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.

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#90. But you make me sing like a guitar humming ...

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#91. I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

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#92. Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

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#93. It's just a two-man con," said Shadow. "Like the bishop and the diamond necklace and the cop. Like the guy with the fiddle, and the guy who wants to buy the fiddle, and the poor sap in between them who pays for the fiddle. Two men, who appear to be on opposite sides, playing the same game.

Neil Gaiman

#94. The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

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