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.
BARRY MANILOWFor a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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 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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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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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 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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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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You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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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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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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