Neil Diamond Quotes

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

I try to harmonize and sing every moment that I can.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

I sing about life.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

'Proud Mary' was the best song for me to perform because it was so much fun.

I love to have fun when I do a song.

Every day, every time I sing, I feel blessed, really, to be able to do that. It's like having wings, in a way. It's a bit like flying sometimes, because you go off into another realm. And a whole lot of people come with you. It's amazing.

I feel like in every situation in life, I just always end up singing, like, anywhere.

A song is a burden that you carry happily.

A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.

Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.

I mean the fun part about when Andy Bernard sings on The Office is he usually embellishes the songs in fun, stupid ways. That's just something that I do in life, like in the shower or whatever. So a lot of that stuff is pretty spontaneous.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.

I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.

I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.

Let there be songs to fill the air.