Quotes by Cynthia Weil

About Cynthia Weil:

Cynthia Weil is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written many songs together with her husband Barry Mann.
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There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

Cynthia Weil

The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

Cynthia Weil

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 Weil

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

Cynthia Weil

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

Cynthia Weil

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.

Cynthia Weil

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

Cynthia Weil

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

Cynthia Weil

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 Weil

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

Cynthia Weil

I wanted to write for Broadway.

Cynthia Weil

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.

Cynthia Weil

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.

Cynthia Weil

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

Cynthia Weil

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

Cynthia Weil

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

Cynthia Weil

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

Cynthia Weil

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.

Cynthia Weil

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.

Cynthia Weil

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

Cynthia Weil

Author Bio

  • NameCynthia Weil
  • DescriptionAmerican songwriter
  • BornOctober 18, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComposer; Songwriter