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

Barry Manilow

My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I’m fabulous.
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Blow Fabulous Hair
The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Cancer Knows Needs
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
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say
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
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
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
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
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
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
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
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
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
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.
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Believe Break Up Crazy
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 was the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Celebrity Famous People Really Seventies Singer
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
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
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
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
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
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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Musician Passion Path

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