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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.

Barry Manilow

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 the Justin Bieber of the ’70s. Really, I was.
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Celebrity Famous People Really Seventies Singer
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
For a Jewish guy, I’ve recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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Albums Christmas Guy
Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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Everything Impact Other Say
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 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
I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Love Music Opportunity
Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Done Hills Thinking
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
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
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
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 believe in my writing.
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Believe Everything Know Write
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
I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You’ve got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You’ve got to go out and fight for it.
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Believe Fighting Giving

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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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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