Jimmy Webb Quotes
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
Quotes to Explore
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I basically grew up in the backwoods.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.
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Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
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Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.
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There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.
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We will continue to communicate with transparency and act courageously and responsibly to ensure the health and well-being of our partners and customers.
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If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
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What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing a poem or essay. Writing anything. I just love writing, whether it is music or words. I just didn't need to share it for the last 18 years. When you share it, it brings on other things, which is good.
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We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
