Famous quotes by Barry Mann:

"You're going to have more rejection than acceptance."

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

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

"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."

"If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist."

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

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

"We became the songs we wrote."

"We've written something like 900 songs in all."

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

"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 quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year."

"We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs."

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

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

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

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

"One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers."

"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."

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