"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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Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

Barry Mann

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.”
“Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities”
“I'm a big advocate of drones.”

Source : "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. February 10, 2013.
“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

Source : "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.
“I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015
“I read everything and anything. I love books.”

Source : "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.
“I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I did a small, small thing in Quiz Show, where I was really just a glorified extra. But, you know, New York actor, few days on a film set: Great! I was probably making subway fare on the play that I was doing at the time. I always think of The Underneath as the first film that I ever did.”

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