Jimmy Webb Quotes

#1. It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.

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#2. When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

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#3. I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

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#4. I've been fortunate that when Frank Sinatra was in concert, he would say, 'Here's a song by a wonderful young songwriter, Jimmy Webb,' and I'd be in the front row and stand up. That gets people talking about you.

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#5. Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.

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#6. The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

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#7. Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

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#8. When we go somewhere in New York, I'm known as Mr. Savini.

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#9. 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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#10. You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

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#11. America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.

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#12. I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actually end up working with Glen Campbell is almost unbelievable.

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#13. As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. The creative processes are so mysterious.

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#17. I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window - all by myself - just going, 'I'm number one!' It's a pretty extraordinary feeling.

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#18. I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you.

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#19. We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

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