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You can’t possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

Barry Manilow

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

Rude Stars Thinking
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
BARRY MANILOW

Country Great Style World
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
BARRY MANILOW

Always Choices Hands Involved Music Passion
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
I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn’t crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
BARRY MANILOW

Believe Break Up Crazy
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
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
Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
BARRY MANILOW

Home Men Years
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
BARRY MANILOW

Goal Happening Involved
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
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
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
I believe in my writing.
BARRY MANILOW

Believe Everything Know Write
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’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.
BARRY MANILOW

Feelings Knees Trying
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid

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