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I didn’t want to be treated like a ‘star.’ I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

Barry Manilow

I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Celebrity Famous People Really Seventies Singer
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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Goal Musician 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
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
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
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say

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