Fame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.
BARRY MANILOWIf 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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 didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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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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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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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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