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.
BARRY MANILOWFor a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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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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We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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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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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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