Barry Manilow Quotes

Sneakers Are Not My Thing.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

My Style Of Music Is The Great American Songbook Meets The Pop World Of The Seventies And Eighties.

I Believe In My Writing.

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.