Jimmy Webb
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"James Layne "Jimmy" Webb" is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous gold record/platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away (song)/Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston (song)/Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park (song)/MacArthur Park". He has had successful collaborations with The 5th Dimension, Glen Campbell, Richard Harris, and Art Garfunkel. In addition, his compositions have been performed by many popular contemporary artists, including Linda Ronstadt, The Supremes, Johnny Maestro, Rod McKuen, Frank Sinatra, Thelma Houston, The Temptations, Barbra Streisand, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Donna Summer, Linda Ronstadt, America (band)/America, Amy Grant, Dionne Warwick, John Denver, Johnny Cash, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Tom Jones (singer)/Tom Jones, Michael Feinstein, Rosemary Clooney, R.E.M., and Carly Simon.

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I got three other guys to play with me, got on a bus, and started playing folk clubs and dives. A lot of times the reception was semi-hostile, like 'What are you doing here? You're rich, and you're probably a Republican as well!'

The creative processes are so mysterious.

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

I think the individual writers are out there punching away but the market is not there. The Top 40 as we knew it was a kind of open forum where people could come and sing their songs and that's not there any more.

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

I don't know whether I would or whether I could.

We are trying to describe the indescribable. It's impossible, but I'm going to try it anyway, and take what you can from it.