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Says she loves me Yes, yes she does Gonna show me tonight, yeah She got the way to move me, Cherry. (Neil Diamond)
I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer. View quote
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Used to slip though every girl's hand like water There never was one who could ever tie me down Straight ahead and steady as Gibraltar 'Til you brought me tumblin' to the ground You got to me You brought me to may knees. View quote
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Then I saw her face Now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind I'm in love I'm a believer I couldn't leave her if I tried. View quote
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Girl, I don't want to fight, I'm a little bit wrong, And you're a little bit right. I said, girl, you know that it's true, It's a little bit me, And it's a little bit you too. View quote
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When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. View quote
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Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics. View quote
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Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 Diamond)
Songwritng is what I do. View quote
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I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part. View quote
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I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly. View quote
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I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Songs are life in 80 words or less. View quote
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I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people. View quote
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Don't know that I will, But until I can find me The girl who'll stay And won't play games behind me, I'll be what I am: A solitary man, solitary man. View quote
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Ah, to be so exciting Won't need bright lights No, no we won't Gonna make our own lighting She got the way to move me, Cherry. (Neil Diamond)
Shilo when I was young, I used to call your name. When no one else would come, Shilo you always came and we'd play. View quote
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Call the sun in the dead of the night And the sun gonna rise in the sky Touch a man who can't walk upright And that lame man, he gonna fly. And I fly, yeah, And I fly. View quote
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I've seen the light And I've seen the flame. And I've been this way before, And I'm sure to be this way again.For I've been refused, And I've been regained, And I've seen your eyes before, And I'm sure to see your eyes again. Once again.For I've been released, And I've been regained, And I've sung my song before, And I'm sure to sing my song again. Once again. View quote
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You don't bring me flowers. You don't sing me love songs. You hardly talk to me anymore. When you come through the door At the end of the day. View quote
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