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I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.

Neil Diamond

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Neil Diamond
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 24
Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Neil Leslie Diamond
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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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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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Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.
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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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I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
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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 followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
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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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