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 MANILOWI love any opportunity I have to make music.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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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 say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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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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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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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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