Cynthia Weil Quotes

• Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.

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  Love Is, Triumph, Someone You Love

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

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  Feel Good, Feels, Greater

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• We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

  Cynthia Weil

  Creativity, Creative, Figures

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

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  Mistake, Learning, Made

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• She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

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  Kings, Writing, Night

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• My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

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  Nature, Proud, Linear

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• Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

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  Writing, Past, Done

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

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  Believe, Doors, Long

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• The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

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  Business, Different, Needs

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

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  Writing, Clothes, Creative

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• We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

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  Home, Afterlife

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

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  Writing, Thinking, Mature

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• I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

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  Writing, Enough, Young

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• But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

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  Want

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• Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

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  Writing, People, Records

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• I wanted to write for Broadway.

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  Writing, Broadway, Wanted

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• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

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  Song, Real, Writing

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 22, 2002.

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• That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

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  Real, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.

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  Working Together, Gone, Littles

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

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  Song, Rejection, Stories

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