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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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 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’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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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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