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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
Neil Diamond
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Neil Diamond
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 24
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Neil Leslie Diamond
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I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.
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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 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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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
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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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I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
Neil Diamond
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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Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.
Neil Diamond
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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Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.
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Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
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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 fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
Neil Diamond
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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Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.
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Songs are life in 80 words or less.
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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
Neil Diamond
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 Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
Neil Diamond