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Very often the music comes first.

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
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Often
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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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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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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.
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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 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 have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.
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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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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
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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 fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
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When I am not writing, I'm dying.
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It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.
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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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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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Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.
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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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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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Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.
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