Author Profile
James Taylor
1948 • American • Musician
81
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 81 quotesI 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
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!— James Taylor
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.— James Taylor
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
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.— James Taylor
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.— James Taylor
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.— James Taylor
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.— James Taylor
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
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
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
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