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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

#every #every time #i #inspiration #plumber

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

— Barry Mann

#good #life #out #something #team

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

— Barry Mann

#competitive #how #into #nature #negative

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#i #i think #scary #seems #think

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

#catalog #go #great #i #looked

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

— Barry Mann

#architecture #college #i #i quit #quit

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

— Barry Mann

#get #important #input #least #me

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

— Barry Mann

#develop #other #possible #producers #record

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

— Barry Mann

#get #other #stale #while #writing

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

#creating #cynthia #generally #i #know