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I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.

Barry Manilow

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
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
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
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
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Always Marry People Wanted
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 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
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
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
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 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

I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.

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