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When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Barry Manilow

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
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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Goal Happening Involved
You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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Happen People Treats
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
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 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.
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Area Bridges Country Hips
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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Musician Passion Path
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Country Great Style World
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
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
I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part… I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.
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Fame Looks Photographer
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
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Jobs Piano Writing
The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
BARRY MANILOW

Cancer Knows Needs
I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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Believe Fighting Giving
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

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