Neil Sedaka Quotes

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I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

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I’ve always enjoyed seeing the world through the eyes of my grandchildren.

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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.

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I admire Gaga. She’s very talented and wise, that girl.

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‘Love Will Keep Us Together’ was a combination of three different singing styles – Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.

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When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!

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I’m not afraid of poking fun at myself.

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The hymn ‘Amazing Grace‘ is so inspirational – I wish I’d written it.

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I love kids. I think I’m a child at heart.

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America has a tendency to chip away at you if you’ve been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.

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Andy Warhol was a good friend of mine. We used to go to the Studio 54 nightclub together with the likes of Liza Minnelli, and we’d dance through the night.

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I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.

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My teachers said, ‘Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.’ I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

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You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don’t become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.

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Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.

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I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough – but I don’t think he’s presidential. I think he’s incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I’m nervous as an American.

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Tra-la-las and doo-be-do’s became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do’s in the ’50s and ’60s. But then when I re-recorded ‘Breaking Up,’ I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do’s!

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I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

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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.’

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I am very proud of being Jewish.

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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.

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I could have been bigger, but I wasn’t controversial enough. I didn’t do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

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I still play my old vinyl LPs – I like the scratches – and I miss browsing in record shops, because they held great nostalgia for me.

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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.

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Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn’t eat unless the radio was playing music.

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I love America, and parts of New Jersey remind me of Newfoundland – rolling hills and gardens – it’s great! I guess that’s why they call it the Garden State.

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I like Manchester – I’ve played it many times. The people have a lot of chein, a lot of heart, and the audiences are very receptive.

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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.

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My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n’ roll and pop.

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I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

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I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.

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Between 1963 and 1975, I worked very little. The Beatles had come to New York and changed music – all the solo singers were out of work.

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I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight‘ and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.

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I had talent, and I was hungry for fame, and you can’t say I didn’t get it.

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I take care of my voice. I don’t go to loud discos where I have to shout; I don’t have iced drinks.

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