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Someone left the cake out in the rain
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Cake
Left
Rain
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The creative processes are so mysterious.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Creative
Mysterious
Process
Processes
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When we go somewhere in New York, I'm known as Mr. Savini.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Mr
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Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Littles
Rewriting
Early Days
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Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Earth
Hell
Writing
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It's very hard for me to think about my songs and attribute some significance to them.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Significance
Attribute
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The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Money
Making Money
Singing
Song
Writing
Money People Making Money
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As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Dare
Sailor
Older
Grown
Hopes
Indulging
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You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Certain
Differences
Making A Difference
Life Where Your
Certain Point
Make A Difference
Reach
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America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
America
Criminals
Justice
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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Bangs
Clash
Song
Together
Bang
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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.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
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We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Fisherman
Fishing
Kind
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I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning full of the spirit. I do believe that it comes to you.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Inspiration
Spirit
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I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Inspiration
Literally
Meaning
Strongly
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Evidence
Existence
Unbelievable
Actually
Almost
Campbell
Working
Grow Up
Prima
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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.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Climbing
Pushing
Sick
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Extraordinary
Summer
Window
Rode
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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.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Kind
Song
Trying
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Intensity
Terror
Interpretive
Presence
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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...
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
May
Rain
Spirit
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Fortunate
Jimmy
Concert
Row
Sinatra
Songwriter
Stand Up
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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?
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Wise
Silence
Song
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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.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Beautiful
Country
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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.
Jimmy Webb / Singer-Songwriter
Should Have
Simple
Writing
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