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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.

Barry Manilow

Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
BARRY MANILOW

Enough Long Proof
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
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
Keep your family and old friends around you. That’s what I had done and that’s what saved my life when it came to being famous.
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Done Family Friends Old
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
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.
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Home Long People
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say
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 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 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.
BARRY MANILOW

Country Gone Interesting
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Believe Fighting Giving
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
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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Happen People Treats

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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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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