I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
BARRY MANILOWI didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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 believe in my writing.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous.
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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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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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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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 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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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