Barry Mann Quotes
- Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
- I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
- I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
- You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
- 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…
- I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
- I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
- If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
- One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
- You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
- It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
- I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
- I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
- I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
- Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
- We became the songs we wrote.
- You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
- You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
- You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
- Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?