Jimmy Webb Quotes
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.
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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 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 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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The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.
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I don't get along with many people, especially in studios. I'm quite blunt and I know what I want - and songwriters are very sensitive people.
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The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
