Jimmy Webb Quotes

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

Jimmy Webb

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• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Church
  • Never
  • Hell

• I basically grew up in the backwoods.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Grew
  • Basically

• I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Strong
  • Respect
  • Emotional

• People should be blessed in life with friends who are both "Mirrors & Shadows"! Mirrors don't lie & shadows never leave.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Life
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Confidence
  • Creative
  • Littles

• 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.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Happens
  • Jump
  • Skins

• I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

  

  Alan Cox
  • People
  • Rest
  • Marvel

• I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Different
  • Beginning
  • Expect

• 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.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Mistakes

• There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

  

  Edwin Lutyens
  • Great
  • Architecture
  • Architects

• Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.

  

  Petrarch
  • Book
  • Sense
  • Inspire

• I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

  

  Butch Hancock
  • Business
  • Job
  • Poetry

• I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Enough
  • Lazy
  • Suppose

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

  

  Jimmy Webb
  • Position
  • Songwriters
  • Fisherman