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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

Barry Manilow

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

Beautiful Hands Writing
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
BARRY MANILOW

People Thinking Trouble
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Book School Years
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
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Idols Moving Reality
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
BARRY MANILOW

Inspirational People Thinking
My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
BARRY MANILOW

Blow Fabulous Hair
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Done Hills Thinking
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Home Long People
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
BARRY MANILOW

Always Choices Hands Involved Music Passion
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Idols Kids Three
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
BARRY MANILOW

Jobs Piano Writing
I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
BARRY MANILOW

Always Marry People Wanted
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Fame Looks Photographer

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