My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
BARRY MANILOWThe public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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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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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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 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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I believe in my writing.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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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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