Barry Manilow Quotes

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.

Signing with Sony/ATV was life changing for me.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?