Barry Mann Quotes

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Barry Mann

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 9, 1939

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

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We've written something like 900 songs in all.

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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

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We became the songs we wrote.

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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

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