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.
BARRY MANILOWEverybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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I believe in my writing.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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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 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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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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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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