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.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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 a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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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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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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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 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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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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