If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. — Barry Mann Inspiration Copy Share Image
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific… — Barry Mann Another Copy Share Image
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. — Barry Mann Ability Copy Share Image
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only… — Barry Mann Danger Copy Share Image
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. — Barry Mann Boys Copy Share Image
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. — Barry Mann Nature Copy Share Image
It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input. — Barry Mann Get Copy Share Image
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner. — Barry Mann Insanity Copy Share Image
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. — Barry Mann Career Copy Share Image
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. — Barry Mann Different Copy Share Image
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. — Barry Mann Architecture Copy Share Image
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I… — Barry Mann Enough Copy Share Image
If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something. — Barry Mann Felt Copy Share Image
There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become… — Barry Mann Alcohol Copy Share Image
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad… — Barry Mann Certain Copy Share Image
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers. — Barry Mann Producers Copy Share Image
Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong? — Barry Mann Lama Copy Share Image
