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.
BARRY MANILOWAtrial 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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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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’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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 am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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