45 Quotes by Barry Mann

Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

We became the songs we wrote.

We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade and a new kind of music was emerging.

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

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

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

And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. And when the night winds start to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. Somewhere out there, if love can see us through then, we'll be together ... Somewhere out there, out where dreams, come true.

It’s amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

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.