Jimmy Webb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Rain #May #Spirit
Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Littles #Rewriting
I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Believe #Inspiration #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.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Climbing #Sick #Matter
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Song #Writing #People
Someone left the cake out in the rain
-- Jimmy Webb

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

#Dream #Sailor #Dare
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Fishing #Kind #Fisherman
You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Differences #Making A Difference #Certain
The creative processes are so mysterious.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Creative #Mysterious #Process
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?
-- Jimmy Webb

#Wise #Song #Silence
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.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Music #Beautiful #Country
Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Writing #Earth #Hell
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.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Writing #Simple #Interesting
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
-- Jimmy Webb

#Song #Together #Bangs

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