I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
BARRY MANILOWEverybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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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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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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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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 believe in my writing.
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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