Mann-Weil Quotes
2 min readFeb 2, 2023
- If we didn’t get the record, we didn’t exist.
- You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.
- We became the songs we wrote.
- It’s very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
- I’ve written songs sober and I’ve written songs high.
- If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
- 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.
- 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.
- I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
- You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
- You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
- I think that most writers who wait until they’re inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
- Cynthia’s lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn’t express themselves.
- If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
- I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
- One other thing, if it’s possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
- It’s very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there’s no creative crop to harvest.
- We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
- You’re going to have more rejection than acceptance.
- It’s amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
