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.
BARRY MANILOWThe 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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 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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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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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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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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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