Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
BARRY MANILOWMisfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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Fame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.
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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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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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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’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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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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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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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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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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