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“Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Sex Quotes #Hands Quotes #Touching Quotes
“I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Song Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Surprise Quotes
“Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Growing Up Quotes #Brooklyn Quotes #Grows Quotes
“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

#Running Quotes #Teenager Quotes #Dna Quotes
“Songs are life in 80 words or less.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Song Quotes
“Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Mean Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Acting Quotes
“Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Songwriting Quotes #Performing Quotes #Hardest Quotes
“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 Quotes #Fans Quotes #Ships Quotes
“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

#Mistake Quotes #Voice Quotes #Perfection Quotes
“Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Guitar Quotes
“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

#Nice Quotes #Different Quotes #Would Be Quotes
“My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.”
-- Neil Diamond

#People Quotes #Parent Quotes #Young Quotes
“Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Song Quotes #Musical Quotes #Training Quotes
“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

#Insecure Quotes #Keys Quotes #Shy Quotes
“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 Quotes #Morning Quotes #Perspective Quotes
“I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Dad Quotes #School Quotes #Singing Quotes
“When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Missing You Quotes #Missing Quotes #Scenery Quotes
“I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Who I Am Quotes #Trying Quotes #Whole Life Quotes
“There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Writing Quotes #Mystery Quotes
“It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Play Quotes #Singing Quotes #Serial Killer Quotes
“Songwritng is what I do.”
-- Neil Diamond
“All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Song Quotes #Matter Quotes #Heritage Quotes
“I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Hard Work Quotes #Play Quotes #Keys Quotes
“As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Different Quotes #Exciting Quotes
“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 Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Body Quotes
“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

#Play Quotes #Focus Quotes #Trying Quotes
“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 Quotes #Two Quotes #Wife Quotes
“Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Romantic Quotes #Heart Quotes #Fire Quotes
“Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Needs Quotes #Born Quotes #Stills Quotes
“Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.”
-- Neil Diamond

#Love Quotes #Heart Quotes #Simple Quotes

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