Barry Manilow Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Thinking, Done, Hills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Break Up, Crazy, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  People, Treats, Happens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Book, School, Years

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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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

  Strong, Ideas, Hungry

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2017

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Dark, Night, Florida

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Home, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Country, Interesting, Gone

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Men, Trying, Visibility

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Looks, Photographer, Fame

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

  Barry Manilow

  Stars, Thinking, Rude

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Years, Yesterday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Feelings, Trying, Knees

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• I believe in my writing.

  Barry Manilow

  Believe, Writing, I Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  Barry Manilow

  Style, World, Great American

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Running, Song, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  New York, Bridges, Hips

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Writing, Sky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would heave a sigh of relief, that finally there is a melody and orchestration, production and a vocalist that is giving them a song that they can just listen to... and not be annoyed by the vocal acrobatics that vocalists seem to think is impressive.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief

  "Oh Mandy! Barry Manilow is back, baby". The Associated Press, www.today.com. February 23, 2006.

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• Sneakers are not my thing.

  Barry Manilow

  Sneakers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  New Year, Mistake, Good Friend

  Song: It's Just Another New Year's Eve, Album: Because It's Christmas, 1990

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Song, Missing, Noses

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• Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

  Barry Manilow

  Home, Men, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barry Manilow

  Kids, Idols, Three

  "Barry Manilow On Singing Standards And His Real Job". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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