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.
BARRY MANILOWThese 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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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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 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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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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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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I believe in my writing.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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 am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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