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.
BARRY MANILOWI 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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I believe in my writing.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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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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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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