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.
BARRY MANILOWFor a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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 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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I believe in my writing.
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