Sneakers are not my thing.
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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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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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 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 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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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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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I believe in my writing.
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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.
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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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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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 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 am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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