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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.
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Idols Moving Reality
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
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.
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Book School Years
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’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
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.
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Song Years Yesterday
My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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Blow Fabulous Hair
I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Always Marry People Wanted
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy
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 believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
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

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