No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
BARRY MANILOWNo one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part… I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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