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.
BARRY MANILOWYou can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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 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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I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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These 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.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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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