Barry Mann famous quotes

04-12-2025

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
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
-- Barry Mann

#Song #Writing #Creative
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
-- Barry Mann

#People #Feelings #Cynthia
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.
-- Barry Mann

#Personality #Alcohol #Drug
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
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
-- Barry Mann

#College #Years #Architecture
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
-- Barry Mann

#Song #Sober
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
-- Barry Mann

#Successful #Songwriting #Ability
We became the songs we wrote.
-- Barry Mann

#Song
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
-- Barry Mann

#Writing #Stale
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
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
-- Barry Mann

#Negative #Turns
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
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-- Barry Mann

#Rejection #Able #Accepting
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
-- Barry Mann

#Records #Should #Producers
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
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
-- Barry Mann

#Careers #Wife #My Wife
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 #Purity
You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
-- Barry Mann

#Acceptance #Rejection #Overcoming
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
-- Barry Mann

#Boys #Mountain #Talent
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
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
-- Barry Mann

#Writing #Brave #Firsts

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