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I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Barry Manilow

Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
BARRY MANILOW

Done Hills Thinking
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
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
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
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
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

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