Barry Mann Quotes

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.
Barry Mann

Life, Fear, Trying

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann

Rejection, Able, Accept

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.
Barry Mann

Enough, Guitar, Played

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
Barry Mann

Feelings, Themselves, Felt

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
Barry Mann

Work, Used, Talent

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

Someone, Different, Else

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

Wife, Beginning, Gut

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.
Barry Mann

Time, Great, Through

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann

College, Year, Studying

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
Barry Mann

Writing, Married, State

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
Barry Mann

Fear, Waiting, Wait

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
Barry Mann

High, Sober, Songs

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
Barry Mann

Time, Today, Down

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

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
Barry Mann

Life, Good, Team

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
Barry Mann

Amazing, Nature, Positive

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann

Someone, Hard, Creative

It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
Barry Mann

Important, Outside, Input

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
Barry Mann

Yourself, Possible, Develop

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
Barry Mann

Successful, Ability, Innate

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
Barry Mann

Great, Writing, Real

We became the songs we wrote.
Barry Mann

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
Barry Mann

Songs, Lived, Pop

We've written something like 900 songs in all.
Barry Mann

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

Writing, While, Stale

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Nationality: American

Born: February 9, 1939

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