Barry Mann
Barry Mann
Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth9 February 1939
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
writing brave firsts
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
writing thinking insanity
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
writing thinking waiting
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
writing stale
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
song writing creative
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
song inspiration writing
If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
danger great might repeat
The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
catalog great looked months pockets saw terrific time wrote year
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
We've written something like 900 songs in all.
It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
felt good life won worth
If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
acceptance rejection overcoming
You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.