I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
BARRY MANILOWI think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
BARRY MANILOWYou know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
BARRY MANILOWMy style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOWEvery 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.
BARRY MANILOWI’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.
BARRY MANILOWWhenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
BARRY MANILOWI love any opportunity I have to make music.
BARRY MANILOWI am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
BARRY MANILOWI was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
BARRY MANILOWThere’s just no quiet in Vegas.
BARRY MANILOWI think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
BARRY MANILOWI 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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
BARRY MANILOWWe’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.
BARRY MANILOWI 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.
BARRY MANILOWEverything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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