QVC has been very good to me.
BARRY MANILOWI’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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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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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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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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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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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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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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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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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