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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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Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
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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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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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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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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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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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Very often the music comes first.
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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.
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When I am not writing, I'm dying.
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I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
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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.
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
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Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.
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Being lost is worth the being found.
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Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
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I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
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The art of love is who you share it with.
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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
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