Barry Mann Quotes
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 always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.
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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.
