James Taylor Quotes

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

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

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

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

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.

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

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

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.

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 believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.

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

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

I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I put in alternate things...and things that might be alternates or improvements. I'll turn the page and do it again. I'll turn the page and do it again, or incorporate the improvements. Eventually, I end up with some material, and often it needs to be ordered.

I was a functional addict.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

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.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

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.

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