You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
BARRY MANILOWFirst 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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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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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 couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
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