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.
BARRY MANILOWI’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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I’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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Fame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.
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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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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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I believe in my writing.
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