199 Quotes by Neil Diamond

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.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

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.

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

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.

The truth always stays the same.

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

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

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.