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

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it’s possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
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Development Producer Records
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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Brave Firsts Writing
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
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Ability Songwriting Successful
There’s so much fear involved in trying to do something you don’t know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
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Alcohol Drug Personality
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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Careers Guts Wife
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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Boys Mountain Talent
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Architecture College Years
No matter what you do, you’ll never run away from you.
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Musician Running Song
It’s very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there’s no creative crop to harvest.
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Creative Song Writing
Cynthia’s lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn’t express themselves.
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Cynthia Feelings People
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Each Other Stale 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.
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Creating Mad Writing
We became the songs we wrote.
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Become Famous Song Wrote
I think that most writers who wait until they’re inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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Thinking Waiting Writing
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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Different might Musical
You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Able Accepting Rejection

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

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