You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
BARRY MANILOWMy goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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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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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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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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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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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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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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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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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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 say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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 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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