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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

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Neil Diamond
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 24
Actor
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Neil Leslie Diamond
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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 think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.
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But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .
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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 like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.
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You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
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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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Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.
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Songs are life in 80 words or less.
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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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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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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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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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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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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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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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Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.
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When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.
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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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I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.
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