My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
BARRY MANILOWQVC has been very good to me.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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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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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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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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