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.
BARRY MANILOWI was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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