Jimmy Webb Quotes
- 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…
- Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.
- 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…
- 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…
- The creative processes are so mysterious.
- You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
- We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
- As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
- Someone left the cake out in the rain
- What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.
- The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
- I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
- Particularly in my early days, I did very little rewriting.