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Jimmy Webb Biography

Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park". He has had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, The 5th Dimension, Art Garfunkel, and Richard Harris.

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

Believe, Full, Inspiration, Meaning, Spirit

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

Good, Ifs, Tried, Work, Worked

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.

Dfferent, Lines, Melody, Should Have, Simple, Writing

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

Dare, Dream, Indulging, Sailor, Say

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

Making, Money, People, Song, Writing

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Creative, Mysterious, Process, Processes

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. . .

Drop, May, Rain, Rest, 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, Limits, Matter, Personal, Sick

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

Days, Early, Littles, Particularly, Rewriting

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

Earth, Hell, Writing, Wrong

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?

Direction, Moment, Rut, Silence, Song, Wise

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

Bang, Bangs, Song, Together, Words

Someone left the cake out in the rain

Cake, Left, Rain

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

Fisherman, Fishing, Grounds, Kind, Same

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, Start, Trying, Usually

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.

Beatles, Beautiful, Country, Music, Records, Thing

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

America, Criminal, Criminals, Justice, National

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

Certain, Differences, Make, Making A Difference, Reach, Things