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 MANILOWNo one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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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 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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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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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