James Taylor Quotes

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James Taylor

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 12, 1948

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

James Taylor

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

James Taylor

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

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

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylor

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

James Taylor

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

James Taylor

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

James Taylor

Music is like a huge release of tension.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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If you feel like singing along, don't.

James Taylor

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

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People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

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It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

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