You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
BARRY MANILOWThe public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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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 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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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 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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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