Neil Diamond Quotes
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All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
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The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
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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'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.
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I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
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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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As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
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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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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
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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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She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.
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I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.
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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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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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The truth always stays the same.
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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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I thank the Lord for the night time.
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When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
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He aint heavy, he's my brother.
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But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .
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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.
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I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.