I believe in my writing.
BARRY MANILOWTouring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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 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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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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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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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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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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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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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