James Taylor Quotes

• Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

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• When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It’s almost theatrical.

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  Tags in Mood, Seldom

• When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

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• What I’ve always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

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• Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.

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• Though ‘Fire and Rain’ is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that’s what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience.

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• Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

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• 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.

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• Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

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• Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

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• Somehow it helps just to take something that’s internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

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• Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I’m like and I don’t really know myself, so how can I tell them?

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• Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It’s not as if I sit down and play ‘Fire and Rain’ by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up… the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

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• Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

  James Taylor

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  Tags in Profound, Least

• People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.

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• Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

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• Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

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• Music is like a huge release of tension.

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• Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

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  Tags in Quit, Ready

• 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.

  James Taylor

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  Tags in Lasts, Foolish, Forever

James Taylor (64)

Birth:	12th March, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician, Singer

About

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first No. 1 hit the following year with "You've Got a Friend", a recording of Carole King's classic song.

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