Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamondis an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career that began in the 1960s. Diamond has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. He is the second most successful adult contemporary artist ever on the Billboard charts. His songs have been covered internationally by many performers from various musical genres...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth24 January 1941
CityBrooklyn, NY
character emotional guitar
Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.
voice healthy body
I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.
song lakes surprise
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
dad school singing
I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
mean discipline acting
Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
different exciting songwriters
As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
growing-up writing years
Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
writing thinking years
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.
song moving writing
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.
art love-is share
The art of love is who you share it with.
firsts
Very often the music comes first.
insanity crunchy neat
Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.
sadness left unheard
Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
relationship winning always-trying
I was always trying to win the world, but somewhere I lost you.