Barry Manilow Quotes

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I believe in my writing.

Sneakers are not my thing.

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.

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

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

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

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 love any opportunity I have to make music.

I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

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 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.

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don't look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don't look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That's what I do.

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.

No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

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.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

'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 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.

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.

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

The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

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.

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.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.