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.
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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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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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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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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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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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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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 never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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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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My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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