Barry Mann Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones -
Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.
Pat Morita -
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'.
Yuna -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I love writing songs.
Sade Adu
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
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.
Jackson Browne -
I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
Haley Joel Osment -
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
M. J. Rose -
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
Nana Mouskouri
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
Taylor Swift -
Every battalion has its marching songs.
Patrick MacGill -
I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin -
A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
Aaron Neville
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We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
Samuel Barber -
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
John Brunner -
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
Helen Keller -
We became the songs we wrote.
Barry Mann