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.
BARRY MANILOWYeah, 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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 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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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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