The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
BARRY MANILOWMisfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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I believe in my writing.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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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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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 am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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