Barry Mann Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I love writing songs.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I love musicals and I love Broadway.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
