Top 28 Quotes by Barry Mann

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

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

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

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

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

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