Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 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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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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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 shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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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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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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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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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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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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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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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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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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For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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I believe in my writing.
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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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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.