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

—James Taylor

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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.

—James Taylor

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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?

—James Taylor

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

—James Taylor

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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.

—James Taylor

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AlmostPersonalSort
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I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

—James Taylor

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I’m glad about what’s happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn’t like music. They didn’t trust musicians. They wanted something...

—James Taylor

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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.

—James Taylor

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That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.

—James Taylor

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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

—James Taylor

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Bruce Springsteen’s a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I’m a folk musician. Honestly, I think that’s true.

—James Taylor

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I don’t think anyone really says anything new.

—James Taylor

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AnyoneSays
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Music is like a huge release of tension.

—James Taylor

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I don’t reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

—James Taylor

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If you feel like singing along, don’t.

—James Taylor

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To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

—James Taylor

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I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

—James Taylor

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I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

—James Taylor

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Percent
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I’m glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

—James Taylor

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I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

—James Taylor

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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...

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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.

—James Taylor

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If you’re an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It’s boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

—James Taylor

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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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I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

—James Taylor

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I don’t get into heavy political numbers because I don’t find them lyrical.

—James Taylor

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I collect hats. That’s what you do when you’re bald.

—James Taylor

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I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just...

—James Taylor

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

—James Taylor

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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They’re extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

—James Taylor

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

—James Taylor

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Buy
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It’s a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you’re being autobiographical.

—James Taylor

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I don’t know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

—James Taylor

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CertainlySongs
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

—James Taylor

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ChooseWhether
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

—James Taylor

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

—James Taylor

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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand.

—James Taylor

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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

—James Taylor

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Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I’m as bald as a billiard ball!

—James Taylor

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I don’t read music. I don’t write or read music.

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I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

—James Taylor

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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.

—James Taylor

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

—James Taylor

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A concert is always like a feast day to me.

—James Taylor

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I enjoy selling my music. I don’t enjoy selling myself.

—James Taylor

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I can take criticisms but not compliments.

—James Taylor

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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.

—James Taylor

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I’m trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

—James Taylor

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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.

—James Taylor

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The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

—James Taylor

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