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I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.

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.
BARRY MANILOW

Running Song Writing
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Jobs Piano Writing
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Book School Years
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOW

Country Great Style World
I couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
BARRY MANILOW

Home Long People
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Idols Kids Three
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Missing Noses Song
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
BARRY MANILOW

People Thinking Trouble
I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
BARRY MANILOW

Hungry Ideas Strong
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
BARRY MANILOW

Goal Happening Involved
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
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
BARRY MANILOW

Feeling Love Music Passion Right
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Men Trying Visibility

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