When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter. Neil Diamond More Quotes by Neil Diamond More Quotes From Neil Diamond Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you. Neil Diamond songsexhands Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies. Neil Diamond sufferingdoubtlying My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is. Neil Diamond voiceperfectionmistake Songs are life in 80 words or less. Neil Diamond song When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. Neil Diamond merry-go-roundscenerymissing-you You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end. Neil Diamond ovationsoulgiving Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly. Neil Diamond lamemenphilosophy 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. Neil Diamond nicedifferentwould-be The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage. Neil Diamond insecureshykeys 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 writingwingsideas Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. Neil Diamond songwritingperforminghardest Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune. Neil Diamond tunesmenneeds I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing. Neil Diamond guysongideas My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives. Neil Diamond parentyoungpeople I thank the Lord for the night time. Neil Diamond religiousnightreligion I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre. Neil Diamond focusplaytrying 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 writingyearsthinking I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there. Neil Diamond teenagerdnarunning I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. Neil Diamond dadmomsoccer Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade. Neil Diamond misinterpretationsleepylays
