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.
BARRY MANILOWFame 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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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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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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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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 didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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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If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
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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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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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These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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I keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
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