Quotes by Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb

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

America

Criminals

Justice

As I’ve grown – dare I say it – older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Dare

Dream

Sailor

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.

Should Have

Simple

Writing

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

Believe

Inspiration

Spirit

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

Bangs

Song

Together

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.

Kind

Song

Trying

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…

May

Rain

Spirit

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.

Climbing

Pushing

Sick

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

Littles

Rewriting

Someone left the cake out in the rain

Cake

Left

Rain

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America

Bangs

Beautiful

Believe

Cake

Certain

Climbing

Country

Creative

Criminals

Dare

Differences

Dream

Earth

Fisherman

Fishing

Hell

Ifs

Inspiration

Justice

Kind

Left

Littles

Making A Difference

May

Money

Music

Mysterious

Process

Pushing

Rain

Rewriting

Sailor

Should Have

Sick

Silence

Simple

Song

Spirit

Together

Trying

Wise

Writing

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Quotes by Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb

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

As I’ve grown – dare I say it – older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

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

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

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.

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…

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.

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

Someone left the cake out in the rain

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