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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.

Barry Manilow

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
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
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
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
Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Believe Everybody Find
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
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
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy
I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.
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Goal Musician Wanted
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
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
I think my music is like anchovies – some people like it, some people get nauseous.
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Inspirational People Thinking
There’s just no quiet in Vegas.
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Awesome City Country Quiet
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
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other

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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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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