You can get stale writing with each othe... by Barry Mann | We Heart Quotes

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

- Barry Mann

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Songs

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

- Barry Mann

Songs

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

- Barry Mann

Acceptance

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

- Barry Mann

Harvest

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

Direction

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

- Barry Mann

Mountains Work

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

- Barry Mann

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