My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOWI’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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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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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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 believe in my writing.
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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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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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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 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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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