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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

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

Happen People Treats
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say
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
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
We’ve made mistakes, But we’ve made good friends too. Remember all the nights we spent with them? And all our plans, Who says they can’t come true? Tonight’s another chance to start again. It’s just another New Year’s Eve, Another night like all the rest.
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Friend Good Mistake New Year
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
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
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 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
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.
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Book School Years
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
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Always Marry People Wanted
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
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

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