Barry Mann Quotes

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Barry Mann

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 9, 1939

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

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Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

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I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.

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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

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