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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

Barry Manilow

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

Musician Passion Path
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
BARRY MANILOW

Enough Long Proof
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Missing Noses Song
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
BARRY MANILOW

Love Music Opportunity
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Running Song Writing
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
BARRY MANILOW

Inspirational People Thinking
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
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
BARRY MANILOW

Everything Impact Other Say
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
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
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
BARRY MANILOW

Believe Everybody Find
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Song Years Yesterday
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
BARRY MANILOW

Morning Next Stupid
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Friend Good Mistake New Year

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