199 Quotes by Neil Diamond

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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