Barry Mann Quotes
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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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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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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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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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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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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 quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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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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We became the songs we wrote.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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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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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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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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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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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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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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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
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You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.