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 MANILOWFame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.
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Fame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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 goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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