I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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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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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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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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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous.
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Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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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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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 can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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