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.
BARRY MANILOWI’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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I believe in my writing.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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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