I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
BARRY MANILOWI 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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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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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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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