James Taylor Quotes
Top 98 wise famous quotes and sayings by James Taylor
James Taylor Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.
I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.