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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Barry Manilow

I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
BARRY MANILOW

Rude Stars Thinking
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Book School Years
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
BARRY MANILOW

People Thinking Trouble
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Area Bridges Country Hips
The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
BARRY MANILOW

Country Gone Interesting
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
BARRY MANILOW

Feeling Love Music Passion Right
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Jobs Piano Writing
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
BARRY MANILOW

Musician Passion Path
I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
BARRY MANILOW

Goal Musician Wanted
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Beautiful Hands Writing
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
BARRY MANILOW

Awesome City Country Quiet
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 MANILOW

Done Family Friends Old
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
BARRY MANILOW

Among Misfits Other
My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
BARRY MANILOW

Blow Fabulous Hair
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Idols Moving Reality
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
BARRY MANILOW

Enough Long Proof

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