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.
BARRY MANILOWMy hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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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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I believe in my writing.
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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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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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