Words matter. These are the best Barry Manilow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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.
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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.
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
QVC has been very good to me.
Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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.
You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Sneakers are not my thing.
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.
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.
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
I believe in my writing.
‘Tryin’ to Get the Feeling’ has been a revelation. I’d forgotten how powerful that was. I’d forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I’m older it means even more.
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
