I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
BARRY MANILOWThese 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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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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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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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.
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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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