Neil Diamond Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Song, Morning, Perspective

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• I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

  Neil Diamond

  Gypsy, Lost, Wander

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• When I am not writing, I'm dying.

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Dying

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• She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

  Neil Diamond

  Moving, Way, Cherries

  Song: Cherry Cherry Christmas, 1966

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• 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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• Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

  Neil Diamond

  Lying, Rocks, Surprise

  Song: Love On The Rocks

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• I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.

  Neil Diamond

  Voice, Healthy, Body

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

  Neil Diamond

  Hard Work, Keys, Play

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

  Neil Diamond

  Mean, Discipline, Acting

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Joy, Sorrow

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• I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

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  Giving, Seems

  Song: I'm a Believer

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• 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

  Thinking, Two, Wife

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• I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

  Neil Diamond

  Self Esteem, Creative, Self Respect

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• Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

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  Firsts, Winner, Fencing

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• 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.

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  Journey, Wife, Tasks

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• I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.

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  Cancer, Tired, Sadness

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• 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.

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  Mind, Age, Body

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• 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.

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  Ambition, Thinking, Years

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• The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

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  Lying, Philosophy, Sleep

  Song: Lady Magdelene, Album: Serenade, 1974

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• 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

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• Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

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  Infidelity, Adultery, Found

  Song: Solitary Man, 1966

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• I had always held everything in before.

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• 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.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Records, Wells

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• 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.

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  Song, Moving, Writing

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• I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

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  Practice, Needs, Fruit

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