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

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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

#Musical Quotes #Different Quotes #Might Quotes

“[Adolf] Hitler and Eva [Braun] jointly came to that decision, I think. Hitler wanted me there for security reasons and to keep Eva company, she wanted me there because we were both still very young. I was 20 years old, to live on my own would have been daunting. I wouldn't have done it and neither would she.”
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”

Source : "The African Queen". Book by C. S. Forester, 1935.
“Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.”
“Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”
“We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.”
“The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.”
“Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.”
“Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

Source : "The Era Of The #fumblebrag" by Caleb Garling, www.wired.com. March 26, 2015.

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