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I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.

Barry Manilow

Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
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
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
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
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
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
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
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble
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 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
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’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Always Marry People Wanted
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
We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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Friend Good Mistake New Year
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
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
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
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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
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 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

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