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.
BARRY MANILOWMisfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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 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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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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 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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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 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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We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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