Barry Manilow Quotes

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

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

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.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

QVC has been very good to me.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

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

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.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

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

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

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.

I believe in my writing.

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

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