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.
BARRY MANILOWMy style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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 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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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 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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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