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When I am not writing, I'm dying.

Neil Diamond

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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
Dying
Writing

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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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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'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
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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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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
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He aint heavy, he's my brother.
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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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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 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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You're alive, you might as well be glad.
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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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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 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 thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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The art of love is who you share it with.
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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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Home's the most excellent place of all.
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