Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
James TaylorThe 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.
James TaylorI'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it.
James Taylor