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 MANILOWI 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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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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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 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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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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 am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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