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.
BARRY MANILOWI 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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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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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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I believe in my writing.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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 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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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