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Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

Barry Manilow

You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
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
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
I was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Celebrity Famous People Really Seventies Singer
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
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
I’m still hungry. I’ve still got a million ideas. I’m still strong and ready to create.
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Hungry Ideas Strong
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
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 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
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.
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Men Trying Visibility
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
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.
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Believe Fighting Giving
Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Done Hills Thinking
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
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
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
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.
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Feelings Knees Trying
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say
I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part… I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.
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Fame Looks Photographer
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.
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Beautiful Song Writing
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
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
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

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