Neil Diamond Quotes
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I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.
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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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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.
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You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.
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Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.
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She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.
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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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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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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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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
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When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
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You're alive, you might as well be glad.
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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 thank the Lord for the night time.
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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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As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
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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'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 am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.
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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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Some are born who never need them, Others still who never read them, signs.
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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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I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.