For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
BARRY MANILOWAtrial 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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 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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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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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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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 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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