Cynthia Weil quotes
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“Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "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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“When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.”
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“We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "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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“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.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
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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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“My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.”
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“Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "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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“I can't seem to write young enough anymore.”
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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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“Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.”
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“We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
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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.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 22, 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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“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.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "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.”
-- Cynthia WeilSource : "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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