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Cynthia Weil Biography

Cynthia Weil (born October 18, 1940) is an American songwriter who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann.

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

Creativity, Creative, Figures, Periods, Figure

I wanted to write for Broadway.

Broadway, Wanted, Write, Writing

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.

Blind, Creative, Dan, Date, Real, Writing

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

Want, Afraid, Fear

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

Feel Good, Feels, Good, Greater, High, Written

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.

Business, Completely, Different, Needs, Producer

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

Anymore, Enough, Write, Writing, Young

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

Linear, Nature, Proud

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

Incredible, Love, Love Is, Someone You Love, Triumph

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.

Difficult, Everyone, Gone, Like, Littles, Working Together

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

Actually, People, Records, Writing

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.

Basically, Real, Records, Song, Songs, Writing

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.

Believe, Doors, Enough, Long, Open, Somebody

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

Famous, Rejected, Rejection, Song, Stories

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

Writing, Thinking, Mature, Young, Think

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.

Writing, Clothes, Creative, Time, Flaws

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

Although, Done, Like, Past, Work, Writing

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.

Kings, Night, Thought, Write, Writing

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

Afterlife, Home, Hoped, Sounded, Wrote

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

Crap, Learning, Made, Mistake, Mistakes, Wrote