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I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.

Barry Manilow

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

People Reading Stupid
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Always Choices Hands Involved Music Passion
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
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Fame Looks Photographer
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
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
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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Beautiful Hands Writing
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
Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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Men Trying Visibility
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
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

I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.

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