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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.

Barry Mann

I’ve written songs sober and I’ve written songs high.
BARRY MANN

Sober Song Written
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.
BARRY MANN

Alcohol Drug Personality
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
BARRY MANN

Different might Musical
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
BARRY MANN

Careers Guts Wife
Cynthia’s lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn’t express themselves.
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Cynthia Feelings People
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
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Ability Songwriting Successful
You’re going to have more rejection than acceptance.
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Acceptance Overcoming Rejection
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 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
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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Brave Firsts Writing
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
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Each Other Stale Writing
We became the songs we wrote.
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Become Famous Song Wrote
It’s amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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Competitive Negative Positive Turns
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 quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
BARRY MANN

Architecture College Years

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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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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