Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
BARRY MANILOWI 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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I 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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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 didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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I’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
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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.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I believe in my writing.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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