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Neil Diamond
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 24
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Neil Leslie Diamond
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He aint heavy, he's my brother.
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I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.
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I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.
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Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.
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Being lost is worth the being found.
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As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
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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.
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When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
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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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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
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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.
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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.
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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
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Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.
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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.
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