Barry Manilow Quotes

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life.

Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I really understood that when I was 15.

It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.

On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had for years mean more to me now than they did years ago.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.

People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

A lot of our fans have grown up, but they've stuck by us for the songs that dig a little deeper.

It's always nice to remember that there was a time when I loved something that I didn't know much about; it just reached my ears and moved me.

We just want people to feel something that they've never felt before. Or at least, something they haven't felt since they were little kids.

I consider what I do soul music. It's music that is concerned with the soul.

It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the beginning of our career and with every song we're thinking, 'This is what's creating us.' Now, nothing is creating us. We're well-created. We're there. It becomes just pure pleasure and you become sort of an archeologist of your own music. You don't judge it, because what's the point? It's a 30-year-old song. It just becomes fun.