Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
BARRY MANILOWI think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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’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 didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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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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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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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 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 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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QVC has been very good to me.
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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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 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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