Neil Diamond Quotes
The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I'm confident, motivated.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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If Marx were functioning today, he would have been hard put to avoid saying that imaginary sex is the opiate of the people.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
