Barry Manilow Quotes
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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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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.
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I believe in my writing.
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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 couldn't bear the road anymore. I'm sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes - I wanted to go home.
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The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.
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I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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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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Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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 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've always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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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 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.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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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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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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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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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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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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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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