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You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Barry Mann

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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Inspiration Song Writing
You’re going to have more rejection than acceptance.
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Acceptance Overcoming Rejection
No matter what you do, you’ll never run away from you.
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Musician Running Song
I’ve written songs sober and I’ve written songs high.
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Sober Song Written
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Each Other Stale Writing
Cynthia’s lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn’t express themselves.
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Cynthia Feelings People
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
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
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
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Ability Songwriting Successful
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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Insanity Thinking Writing
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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Careers Guts Wife
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn’t come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Being Guitar Piano Played
We became the songs we wrote.
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Become Famous Song Wrote
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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Brave Firsts Writing
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

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