I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
BARRY MANILOWWhenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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 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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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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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’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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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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 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 say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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