Barry Mann Quotes

• No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

  Barry Mann

  Running, Song, Musician

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

  Barry Mann

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• Es muy difícil enseñar a alguien a escribir una canción si para empezar no hay cosecha creativa que recoger.

  Barry Mann

  Song, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Waiting

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

  Barry Mann

  People, Feelings, Cynthia

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

  Barry Mann

  Acceptance, Rejection, Overcoming

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• Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

  Barry Mann

  Rams, Unanswered Questions, Rama

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

  Barry Mann

  Negative, Turns

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

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  Boys, Mountain, Talent

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• We became the songs we wrote.

  Barry Mann

  Canción

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

  Barry Mann

  Song, Sober, Written

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  Barry Mann

  Successful, Songwriting, Ability

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Personality, Alcohol, Drug

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Stale

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• 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

  Writing, Creating, Mad

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

  College, Years, Architecture

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

  Barry Mann

  Musical, Different, Might

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

  Barry Mann

  Rejection, Able, Accepting

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

  Barry Mann

  Records, Should, Producers

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

  Barry Mann

  Careers, Wife, Guts

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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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.

  Barry Mann

  Guitar, Piano, Being Played

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Insanity

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

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  Writing, Brave, Firsts

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