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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

Barry Manilow

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
Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
BARRY MANILOW

Done Hills Thinking
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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Friend Good Mistake New Year
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
I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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Rude Stars Thinking
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
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 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.
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Missing Noses Song
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
I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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Hungry Ideas Strong
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.
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Country Gone Interesting
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy

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