"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."

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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

#Successful Quotes #Songwriting Quotes #Ability Quotes

“[Producers] promised me they wouldn't do that sort of "defining nature of my character is that Laurel is Latina [in How to Get Away with Murder] ." It has nothing to do with that. She just happens to be a Latina.”
“The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale,”
“Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.”
“The radical is simply being given more room in the mainstream. And I think young people - I'm talking about the very young millennials - they are bored by so much so fast and have such fast big brains, that they won't digest lazy uninteresting work in the way my generation might have. This is a great opportunity for those on the fringe to be less on the fringe perhaps.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2008.
“To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.”
“The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us.”
“It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax. So in 1913, they put in the income tax. It was incredibly popular. The tax we love to hate today.”

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