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Neil Diamond is an American singer-songwriter who has sold over 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, and has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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About the Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamondis an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: “Cracklin’ Rosie”, “Song Sung Blue”, “Longfellow Serenade”, “I’ve Been This Way Before”, “If You Know What I Mean”, “Desiree”, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (which he did with Marilyn Bergman), “America”, “Yesterday’s Songs”, and “Heartlight”. Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, including “Sweet Caroline”. He has also acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 musical drama film The Jazz Singer.
Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Frequently Asked Questions
Neil Leslie Diamond is the full name of the American singer-songwriter.
Neil Diamond has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.
Neil Diamond has had ten number one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, including ‘Cracklin’ Rosie’, ‘Song Sung Blue’, and ‘America’.
Yes, Neil Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
Neil Diamond has received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Neil Diamond has acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 musical drama film The Jazz Singer.
Thirty-eight songs by Neil Diamond have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, including his signature song ‘Sweet Caroline’.
21 Quotes by Neil Diamond
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No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Songwriting is different from music, although I don’t deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn’t change that experience for anything.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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It’s very difficult for me to say ‘I love you’ but to sing ‘I love you’ for me is easier.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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I don’t like all of the music to be serious and deadly.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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I’m lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Because my musical training has been limited, I’ve never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I’m partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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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.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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When you’re on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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I’ve looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I’m in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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I’ve always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I’ll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Songwritng is what I do.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Songs are life in 80 words or less.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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There’s a mystery to writing, and you don’t really know where most of it comes from.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn’t expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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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.
Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter