Neil Diamond Quotes

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. - Neil Diamond

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. - Neil Diamond

When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do. - Neil Diamond

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from. - Neil Diamond

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

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible. - Neil Diamond

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. - Neil Diamond

Stones has meant to me the things that hurt people, things that cause people pain. - Neil Diamond

Songwritng is what I do. - Neil Diamond

Songwriting is the only real discipline I've 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

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