My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
BARRY MANILOWYou say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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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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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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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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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 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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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