199 Quotes by Neil Diamond

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Home’s the most excellent place of all.

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.

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.