Neil Diamond Quotes
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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 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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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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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.
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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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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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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
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She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.
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Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
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I thank the Lord for the night time.
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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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You're alive, you might as well be glad.
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When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
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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.