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.
BARRY MANILOWI love any opportunity I have to make music.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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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 didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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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 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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Atrial 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.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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