Al Barry Quotes

It's not an easy choice, but that's OK. Easy doesn't equal good. Difficulty doesn't equal bad. It's just life, is all.

It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

I believe in my writing.

Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

We became the songs we wrote.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.