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
backwards became bigger brought focus inspire particular recordings rick songs understand worrying
the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing it. The songs have to come first and inspire everything else. If Rick did anything for me, he did that. He brought my focus back to the songs and made me feel comfortable about not worrying about how the recording of that particular song would be.
agreed concerned exception far guns heads magical playing result rick songs stuck
All of which I agreed to, with the exception of playing on the songs while singing, ... We butted heads as far as that one was concerned -- I complained about it every day. Fortunately, Rick stuck to his guns because the result is really some kind of magical recording.
agreed both continue felt next rick songs
Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to have me write songs that Rick felt were right for me.
song matter heritage
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.
song lakes surprise
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
different exciting songwriters
As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
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.
song writing lap
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
song blue my-favorite
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
song records wells
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.
meaningful song writing
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.
song writing reason
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
song feelings complicated
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
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.