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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
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.
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Jobs Piano Writing
I believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
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
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
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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Men Trying Visibility
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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Goal Happening Involved
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.
BARRY MANILOW

Beautiful Song Writing
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
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
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
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
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
Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Always Choices Hands Involved Music Passion
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
Sneakers are not my thing.
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Sneakers Thing Unlike
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
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
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
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
I’ve always wanted to marry Elton John.
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Always Marry People Wanted
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 love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
BARRY MANILOW

Feeling Love Music Passion Right
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy

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