Jimmy Webb Quotes

#1. The songs he chose reflected that same withdrawn, private man, but this man had the gift of expressing his inner soulscape through the medium of some of the 20th century's finest songwriters, from Rodgers and Hart to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Jimmy Webb, and as always, making those songs his own.

Neil Peart

#2. 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.

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

#5. 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.

Jimmy Webb

#6. The creative processes are so mysterious.

Jimmy Webb

#7. My children love me. I'm like the mother they never had.

Roseanne Barr

#8. Dating and getting to really know a woman is a different game. Kind of like the difference in Monopoly and Texas Hold 'Em.

Carolyn Brown

#9. 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.

Jimmy Webb

#10. 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.

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

#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.

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

#15. What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

#21. You're one to talk," she says. "You're always moping. We should start calling you Beatrice Prior, Queen of Tragedy.

Veronica Roth

#22. This is how it's done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up - sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don't get your slab of granite that year - but you stick with it and eventually you end up with something sooo big.

Neal Stephenson

#23. 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.

Jimmy Webb

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

Jimmy Webb

#25. Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

Walter Wykes