My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOWWhenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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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.
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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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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 believe in my writing.
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