Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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I believe in my writing.
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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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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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