I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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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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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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