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Barry Mann

"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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"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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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
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"We've written something like 900 songs in all."
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"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."
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"You've got to really be able to accept the rejection."
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"You can get stale writing with each other for a while."
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"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."
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"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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"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."
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"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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"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."
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