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.
BARRY MANILOWKeep 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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 know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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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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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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