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
firsts winner fencing
Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
song hurt pain
As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.
ignored reviews bad-reviews
Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.
thinking two wife
I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.
ambition thinking years
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.
spots comfortable
I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.
deities kind accepted
I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.
firsts three bars
When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
mind body mind-and-body
Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind.
singing connections choral-music
Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.
simple trying few-words
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
song joy sorrow
Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.
song special way
Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
song thinking said
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.