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I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Barry Manilow

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.
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Running Song Writing
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
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
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
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
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
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
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
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
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
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
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.
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Idols Kids Three
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
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
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People 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
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
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
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 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
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 think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble

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