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.
BARRY MANILOWI think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
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The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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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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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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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.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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 keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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