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.
BARRY MANILOWI’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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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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These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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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 didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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Fame 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.
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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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QVC has been very good to me.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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I believe in my writing.
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