Neil Diamond Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Mystery, Knows

• When I am not writing, I'm dying.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Dying

• 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

  Meaningful, Song, Writing

• 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

  Writing, Fans, Ships

• 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

  Writing, Heart, Light

• 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

  Song, Writing, Reason

• Be...As a page that aches for a word
  Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Pages, Speak

  Song: Be, Album: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 1973

• 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

  Song, Couple, Real

• 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

  Growing Up, Writing, Years

  "Neil Diamond: A 'Solitary Man' Enters The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 11, 2011.

• My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Neil Diamond: A 'Solitary Man' Enters The Hall Of Fame". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 11, 2011.

• 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

  Song, Moving, Writing

• 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

  Writing, Wings, Ideas

• 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

  Song, Writing, Lap

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