Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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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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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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I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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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Sneakers are not my thing.
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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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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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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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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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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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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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