45 Quotes by Barry Mann

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

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

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

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

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

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

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.

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.

I was very fortunate, though, to have a writing partner that truly is brilliant with words and at the same time very soulful.