Top 100 Neil Diamond Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Touch a man who can’t walk up right, and that lame man, he’s gonna fly.”

— Neil Diamond

53. “I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.”

— Neil Diamond

54. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

55. “I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.”

— Neil Diamond

56. “Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.”

— Neil Diamond

57. “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

58. “I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.”

— Neil Diamond

59. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

60. “Songs are life in 80 words or less.”

— Neil Diamond

61. “I got worries by the ton, getting cancer’s only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.”

— Neil Diamond

62. “Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.”

— Neil Diamond

63. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

64. “I followed all life’s pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.”

— Neil Diamond

65. “My peers accept me and respect me, and that’s enough.”

— Neil Diamond

66. “Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.”

— Neil Diamond

67. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

68. “It’s very difficult for me to say ‘I love you’ but to sing ‘I love you’ for me is easier.”

— Neil Diamond

69. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

70. “I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.”

— Neil Diamond

71. “I’ve spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.”

— Neil Diamond

72. “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

73. “I guess I haven’t gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.”

— Neil Diamond

74. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

75. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

76. “I thank the Lord for the night time.”

— Neil Diamond

77. “As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.”

— Neil Diamond

78. “Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn’t change that experience for anything.”

— Neil Diamond

79. “Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.”

— Neil Diamond

80. “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

81. “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

82. “Very often the music comes first.”

— Neil Diamond

83. “I don’t like all of the music to be serious and deadly.”

— Neil Diamond

84. “Whatever success I’ve had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.”

— Neil Diamond

85. “Songwritng is what I do.”

— Neil Diamond

86. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

87. “As a songwriter there’s nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.”

— Neil Diamond

88. “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

89. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

90. “I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.”

— Neil Diamond

91. “It’s much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it’ll be a singing serial killer.”

— Neil Diamond

92. “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

93. “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.”

— Neil Diamond

94. “There’s a mystery to writing, and you don’t really know where most of it comes from.”

— Neil Diamond

95. “I’m not really comfortable in any one spot.”

— Neil Diamond

96. “I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.”

— Neil Diamond

97. “Because my musical training has been limited, I’ve never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.”

— Neil Diamond

98. “I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.”

— Neil Diamond

99. “Songs are so all-encompassing; they’re the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.”

— Neil Diamond

100. “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