Music Quote by Jim Diamond

There’s a disarming modesty in Jim Diamond’s offhand “in postscript,” like he’s tacking on gratitude after the real business has been handled. It’s not a grand artistic manifesto; it’s the kind of line musicians drop when they’re trying to keep the ego out of the room. That’s exactly why it lands. Diamond frames his career less as conquest than as proximity: he’s “fortunate” because he’s been allowed into other people’s electricity, “a lot of great bands,” plural, the emphasis on the communal rather than the solitary genius narrative that pop culture loves to sell.

The subtext is a quiet résumé. You don’t say you’ve worked with “a lot of great bands” unless your path has been crowded with names, scenes, studio hours, late-night vans, and those strange, intimate negotiations that make music happen. It’s also a subtle corrective to the way we over-credit frontmen and hits. Diamond (best known to many as a singer and songwriter in the UK rock and pop ecosystem) gestures toward the reality that careers are built through collaboration, timing, and being the kind of talent other talented people want nearby.

Even the casual “let’s just say” does work: it implies there’s more he could claim, more stories he could tell, but chooses restraint. In a culture that rewards self-mythology, Diamond’s postscript reads like an ethic: measure a life in music by the company you kept, and call it luck even when you earned it.