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.
BARRY MANILOWI’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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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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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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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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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