Barry Manilow Quotes

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

"Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Sneakers are not my thing."

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

"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."

"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."

"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 we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be."

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

"'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."

"QVC has been very good to me."

"I believe in my writing."

"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 love any opportunity I have to make music."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"'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."

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

"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."