You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
BARRY MANILOWMy style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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 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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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