I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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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I’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.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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 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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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I believe in my writing.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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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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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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