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 MANILOWMy style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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 keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
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I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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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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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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