Jimmy Webb Quotes
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What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.
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We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise to say, Why don't we stop here and have a moment of silence, then go in a completely different direction?
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.
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We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
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I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can Perhaps I may become a highwayman again Or I may simply be a single drop of rain But I will remain And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again...
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I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always get there. But I try to visualize what it's actually going to be.
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You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
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The creative processes are so mysterious.
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Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.
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America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.
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I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.
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In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.
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The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
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Someone left the cake out in the rain
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Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.
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As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
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