Barry Manilow Quotes

There was a time when I doubted if I would find love again. But I was determined to be happy.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

I love having other people sing my songs.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?'

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

I'm very proud of 'Backatown,' and usually I don't like to listen to my records.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.

When you're singing about love stories, which is most of my songs, it's good to have a lot of information and to have a different point of view.

Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We've done all that.

I knew that I had done my best on 'Tell The Truth'… I was so proud of that record.

I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.

'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.

Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.