Barry Mann Quotes
"Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves."
- Barry Mann
(Related: People, Feelings)
"I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Work, Talent, Mountains)
"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Direction)
"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Wife, Beginning, Careers)
"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
(Related: Time, Months, Songs)
"I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Architecture, College)
"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Insanity, State, Writing)
"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Songs)
"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
(Related: Life, Worth)
"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
(Related: Being, Guitar, Purity)
"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
(Related: Harvest, Song)
"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Fear, Waiting, Writers)
"One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers."
- Barry Mann
"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Successful, Ability)
"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
(Related: Danger, Song, Thinking, Writing)
"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
(Related: Life, Fear, Alcohol, Drugs, Personality, Trying)
"We became the songs we wrote."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Songs)
"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Songs)
"We've written something like 900 songs in all."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Songs)
"You can get stale writing with each other for a while."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Writing)
"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Nothing, Tools, Writing)
"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
- Barry Mann
(Related: First, Writing)
"You're going to have more rejection than acceptance."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Acceptance, Rejection)
"You've got to really be able to accept the rejection."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Rejection)
"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Nature, Negative, Positive)
"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Time, Inspiration, Song, Today)