Barry Manilow Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.”
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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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“Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.”
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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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“For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.”
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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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“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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“Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.”
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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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“Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.”
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“Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.”
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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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“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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“You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.”
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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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“To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.”
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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 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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“What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.”
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“I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.”
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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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“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 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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“I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time. No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right. I am totally committed to my music and my fans.”
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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'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.”
-- Barry Manilow
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