I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
BARRY MANILOWEvery 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I believe in my writing.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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QVC has been very good to me.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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