My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOWI 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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QVC has been very good to me.
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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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I believe in my writing.
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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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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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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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We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive…And since I’m a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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