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.
BARRY MANILOWAtrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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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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You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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Fame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I believe in my writing.
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