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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

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 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
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
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
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
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
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
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble
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
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
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 think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
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

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