The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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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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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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