QVC has been very good to me.
BARRY MANILOWI 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.
More Barry Manilow Quotes
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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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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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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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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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 believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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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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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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I’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.
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