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.
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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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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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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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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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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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 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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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