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Barry Manilow

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
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy
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
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
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
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’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
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 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
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
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 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 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
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
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

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