For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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 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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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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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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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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I believe in my writing.
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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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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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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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