Barry Mann Quotes

You Have To Be Very Brave In That First Writing Session.

I Think If One Wants To Be In A Continual State Of Insanity One Should Stay Married To That Writing Partner.

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.

I Know At The Beginning Of Our Careers, My Wife And I Were Gut Wrenchingly Competitive.

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.

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.

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 Can Get Stale Writing With Each Other For A While.

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.

Probably Most Successful Songwriters Have An Innate Songwriting Ability.