I love any opportunity I have to make music.
BARRY MANILOWFame 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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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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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 come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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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