Barry Mann Quotes

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

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

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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.

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

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• 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

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• It’s very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

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• If we didn’t get the record, we didn’t exist.

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

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

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

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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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Barry Mann (28)

Birth:	9th February, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician

About

Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil. Mann married Weil in August 1961. The couple has one daughter: Dr Jenn Berman. Mann and lyricist Cynthia Weil now operate a publishing company called Dyad Music. Mann's first hit single as a writer was She Say, a Top 20 song for The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Mike Anthony.

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