Quotes by Barry Manilow

About Barry Manilow:

Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is best known for such recordings as "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana (At the Copa)".
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Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

Barry Manilow

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Barry Manilow

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.

Barry Manilow

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Barry Manilow

QVC has been very good to me.

Barry Manilow

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.

Barry Manilow

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Barry Manilow

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Barry Manilow

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...

Barry Manilow

'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.

Barry Manilow

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

Barry Manilow

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Barry Manilow

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

Barry Manilow

Sneakers are not my thing.

Barry Manilow

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.

Barry Manilow

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

Barry Manilow

My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.

Barry Manilow

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

Barry Manilow

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

Barry Manilow

Author Bio

  • NameBarry Manilow
  • DescriptionUS musician
  • BornJune 17, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Singer-songwriter; Composer; Conductor; Songwriter
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award