Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
BARRY MANILOWI was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part… I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.
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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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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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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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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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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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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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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.
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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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