Barry Mann quote: "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."

It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
BARRY MANN

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
BARRY MANN

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN

We've written something like 900 songs in all.
BARRY MANN

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
BARRY MANN

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
BARRY MANN

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki...
BARRY MANN

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
BARRY MANN

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themsel...
BARRY MANN

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direc...
BARRY MANN

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ...
BARRY MANN

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and...
BARRY MANN

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear...
BARRY MANN

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
BARRY MANN

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
BARRY MANN

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
BARRY MANN

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
BARRY MANN

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record pr...
BARRY MANN

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing ...
BARRY MANN

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative cro...
BARRY MANN

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
BARRY MANN

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber toda...
BARRY MANN

We became the songs we wrote.
BARRY MANN

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs ...
BARRY MANN

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
BARRY MANN

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
BARRY MANN

The biggest problem is getting to work.
BARRY MANN

Once I get into it, then I'm into it.
BARRY MANN

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
BARRY MANN

I was very fortunate, though, to have a writing partner that truly is brilliant with words and at th...
BARRY MANN

I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being ...
BARRY MANN

We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a...
BARRY MANN

It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
BARRY MANN

And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same ...
BARRY MANN

You're fools to try to be songwriters!
BARRY MANN

She just wants to jump in, and I procrastinate for awhile until I really get into it.
BARRY MANN

We've written something like 900 songs in all.
BARRY MANN

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
BARRY MANN

A good lyric sings to me. And another lyricist might sing another lyrical song to me.
BARRY MANN

Carole (King) always said there was a small window of opportunity and we happened to come along at t...
BARRY MANN

Right now we're writing a Broadway show.
BARRY MANN

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to har...
BARRY MANN

Writing with other people is also beneficial, not only on the creative aspect, but also that they ha...
BARRY MANN

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record produc...
BARRY MANN

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but ...
BARRY MANN

We wrote for Broadway.
BARRY MANN

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
BARRY MANN

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
BARRY MANN

But at the same time, sometimes it is very good to write with other people because you do have that ...
BARRY MANN

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to ...
BARRY MANN

I see myself as an artist, as a professional, as a craftsman and as an all around narcissistic, need...
BARRY MANN

When the British invasion happened, I became aware that records were more guitar driven and I had al...
BARRY MANN

This is the first time in a long time that we have had so many applicants here, ... This is a great ...
BARRY MANN

I'm very nervous that this whole affair will hurt our business financially.
BARRY MANN

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
BARRY MANN

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
BARRY MANN

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
BARRY MANN

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking t...
BARRY MANN

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
BARRY MANN

Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the ...
SALLY MANN

The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while re...
SALLY MANN

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi...
SALLY MANN

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo...
SALLY MANN

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
SALLY MANN

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
SALLY MANN

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
SALLY MANN

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ...
SALLY MANN

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and...
SALLY MANN

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
SALLY MANN

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an...
SALLY MANN

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
SALLY MANN

I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe...
SALLY MANN

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
SALLY MANN

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
SALLY MANN

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ...
SALLY MANN

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about...
SALLY MANN

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi...
SALLY MANN

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit...
SALLY MANN

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity...
SALLY MANN

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a...
SALLY MANN

Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst...
SALLY MANN

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN

In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o...
MANFRED MANN

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a ...
MANFRED MANN

I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the coun...
MANFRED MANN

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
HEINRICH MANN

More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and...
HORACE MANN

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
HORACE MANN

To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN

The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN

We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN

I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN

Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN

I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN

I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN

You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN

The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN

Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN

I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much ca...
HORACE MANN

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
HORACE MANN

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen...
LESLIE MANN

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
GABRIEL MANN

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morr...
GABRIEL MANN

My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm s...
GABRIEL MANN

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red wi...
GABRIEL MANN

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters...
GABRIEL MANN

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone say...
GABRIEL MANN

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
GABRIEL MANN

Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and littl...
GABRIEL MANN

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great somet...
GABRIEL MANN

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobo...
GABRIEL MANN

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright childre...
THOMAS MANN

I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue s...
SALLY MANN

Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
GABRIEL MANN

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details an...
AIMEE MANN

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...
HORACE MANN

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
HORACE MANN

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
HORACE MANN

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...
HORACE MANN

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi...
HORACE MANN

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
HORACE MANN

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by i...
HORACE MANN

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
HORACE MANN

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No rewa...
HORACE MANN

Time has no division to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to anno...
THOMAS MANN

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, lik...
THOMAS MANN

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so f...
THOMAS MANN

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's re...
HERBIE MANN

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I h...
HERBIE MANN

The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demi...
THOMAS MANN

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.

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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.

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