Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
BARRY MANILOWI think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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I believe in my writing.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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First of all, I’ve been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn’t write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous.
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I keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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