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

— Barry Mann

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

— Barry Mann

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

— Barry Mann

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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

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

— Barry Mann

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

— Barry Mann

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

— Barry Mann

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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

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All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#chorus #dialogue #greek #had #hamptons

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

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