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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.

Barry Manilow

I’ve been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.
BARRY MANILOW

Feelings Knees Trying
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
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Song Years Yesterday
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Friend Good Mistake New Year
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
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
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
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 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 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
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
If I Should Love Again’ – I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn’t a single and people didn’t really know about it, but it’s a beautiful song and that’s part of what I’m loving.
BARRY MANILOW

Beautiful Song 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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