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 MANILOWThese 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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 am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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I couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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 didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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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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