I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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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 style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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 hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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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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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 am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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