Quotes by Neil Sedaka - Page 2

There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen and marvel at how different they are and how they still stand up. They are very well done, if I must say so.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Periods
Well Done
Marvel
Stand Up
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I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have to learn how to sing all over again. You use your diaphragm more. You have to choose the notes and pace yourself.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Notes
Pace
Neil
Seventy
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Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Mink
Mother And Father
Records
Shock
Beethoven
Bought
Million
Sold
Stole
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I rode on a plane a couple years ago with Snow Patrol and didn't know who the hell they were. They said they were big fans of mine and were playing Madison Square Garden. And they let me listen to one of their records on their iPod. I started to weep.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Garden
Madison
Records
Snow
Years Ago
Couple Years
Ipod
Mine
Patrol
Plane
Rode
Square
Weep
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These are some of my awards - an Ivor Novello, a Variety Club Silver Heart, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. I also have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a street named after me in Brooklyn where I used to live.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Achievement
Brooklyn
Lifetime
Silver
Songwriters
Variety
Award
Named
Hall
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I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah, the rabbi was in tears. He said to my parents, 'He must become a cantor in the synagogue,' but my mother said, 'No, he's going to be a concert pianist.'
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Bar Mitzvah
Embarrassed
Mitzvah
Pianist
Rabbi
Remarkable
Synagogue
Tears
Bar
Concert
Concert Pianist
Sang
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I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Medicine
People
Suffering
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I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It's an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Approach
My Soul
Psychological
Spiritual
Theory
Three
Soul Your Mind
Favorite
Soul Mind Your
Intellectually
Tune
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I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Song
Voice
Writing
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