Barry Mann
Barry Mann
Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth9 February 1939
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
negative turns
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
writing stale
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
successful ability songwriting
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
college years architecture
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
musical might different
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
personality alcohol drug
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.
people feelings cynthia
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
boys mountain talent
I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
affair business hurt nervous
I'm very nervous that this whole affair will hurt our business financially.
five six songs written
I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being a songwriter.
Once I get into it, then I'm into it.
apart bright far helps lonesome love might night sing sleeping somewhere start though together underneath winds wishing
And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. And when the night winds start to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky. Somewhere out there, if love can see us through then, we'll be together ... Somewhere out there, out where dreams, come true.
song sober written
I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.