I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
BARRY MANILOWI think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 believe in my writing.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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