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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 am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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Musician Passion Path
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Cancer Knows Needs
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’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
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
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
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
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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People Reading Stupid
I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Believe Break Up Crazy
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
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy
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.
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Done Family Friends Old
I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Celebrity Famous People Really Seventies Singer
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
I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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Goal Musician Wanted
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
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
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet

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

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