Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
BARRY MANILOWI 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 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 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 style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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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 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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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 my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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