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During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint. " I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

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Jimmy Webb

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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