Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
BARRY MANILOWI 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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