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

Barry Manilow

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
BARRY MANILOW

Song Years Yesterday
I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
BARRY MANILOW

Goal Musician Wanted
Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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Home Men Years
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Running Song Writing
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOW

Country Great Style World
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
BARRY MANILOW

Blow Fabulous Hair
I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Celebrity Famous People Really Seventies Singer
I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
BARRY MANILOW

Hungry Ideas Strong
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Idols Moving Reality
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Feeling Love Music Passion Right
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Missing Noses Song
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
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.
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Feelings Knees Trying
Fame is always a shock to the system; there’s no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it’s a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.
BARRY MANILOW

Book School Years

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