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.
BARRY MANILOWYou say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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I believe in my writing.
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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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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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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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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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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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