QVC has been very good to me.
BARRY MANILOWKeep 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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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 believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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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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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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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’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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