You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know. (Barry 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. (Barry Mann)
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. (Barry Mann)
We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs. (Barry Mann)
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. (Barry Mann)
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. (Barry Mann)
I'm very nervous that this whole affair will hurt our business financially. (Barry Mann)
Right now we're writing a Broadway show. (Barry Mann)
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by. (Barry Mann)
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves. (Barry Mann)
You can get stale writing with each other for a while. (Barry Mann)
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. (Barry Mann)
The biggest problem is getting to work. (Barry Mann)
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner. (Barry Mann)
We've written something like 900 songs in all. (Barry Mann)