Top 100 Neil Diamond Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.”

— Neil Diamond

2. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

3. “Being lost is worth the being found.”

— Neil Diamond

4. “Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.”

— Neil Diamond

5. “He aint heavy, he’s my brother.”

— Neil Diamond

6. “Love on the rocks, ain’t no surprise. Pour me a drink and I’ll tell you some lies.”

— Neil Diamond

7. “When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.”

— Neil Diamond

8. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

9. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

10. “Home’s the most excellent place of all.”

— Neil Diamond

11. “The art of love is who you share it with.”

— Neil Diamond

12. “The truth always stays the same.”

— Neil Diamond

13. “Don’t need to say please to no man for a happy tune.”

— Neil Diamond

14. “Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.”

— Neil Diamond

15. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

16. “I don’t feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.”

— Neil Diamond

17. “Money talks but it can’t sing and dance and it don’t walk.”

— Neil Diamond

18. “You’re alive, you might as well be glad.”

— Neil Diamond

19. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

20. “I’m trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn’t interest me. It’s not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I’m going to be mediocre.”

— Neil Diamond

21. “When I am not writing, I’m dying.”

— Neil Diamond

22. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

23. “Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.”

— Neil Diamond

24. “Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn’t mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.”

— Neil Diamond

25. “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

26. “Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.”

— Neil Diamond

27. “Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it’s reflected in the writing.”

— Neil Diamond

28. “I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.”

— Neil Diamond

29. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

30. “Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream...”

— Neil Diamond

31. “I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.”

— Neil Diamond

32. “I’m lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.”

— Neil Diamond

33. “Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.”

— Neil Diamond

34. “Melinda was mine ’til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.”

— Neil Diamond

35. “Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin’, crunchy granola’s neat.”

— Neil Diamond

36. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

37. “She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.”

— Neil Diamond

38. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

39. “Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.”

— Neil Diamond

40. “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

41. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

42. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

43. “Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.”

— Neil Diamond

44. “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

45. “When you’re on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.”

— Neil Diamond

46. “I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.”

— Neil Diamond

47. “Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.”

— Neil Diamond

48. “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

49. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

50. “I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.”

— Neil Diamond