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I keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

Barry Manilow

I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
BARRY MANILOW

Always Marry People Wanted
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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
BARRY MANILOW

Love Music Opportunity
I couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
BARRY MANILOW

Home Long People
Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous.
BARRY MANILOW

Done Family Friends Old
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
BARRY MANILOW

Awesome City Country Quiet
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

Beautiful Hands Writing
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
BARRY MANILOW

Goal Happening Involved
You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
BARRY MANILOW

Idols Kids Three
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
The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
BARRY MANILOW

Country Gone Interesting
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
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
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
BARRY MANILOW

Enough Long Proof
I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
BARRY MANILOW

Rude Stars Thinking
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
BARRY MANILOW

Albums Christmas Guy

I keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

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I keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.

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