Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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