I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
BARRY MANILOWMy goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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I believe in my writing.
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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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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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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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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I love any opportunity I have to make 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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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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