James Taylor Quotes

Author Image

James Taylor

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 12, 1948

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

James Taylor

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

James Taylor

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

James Taylor

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

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

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

James Taylor

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

James Taylor

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 else from it.

James Taylor

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

James Taylor

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

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

James Taylor

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 took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

James Taylor

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

James Taylor

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

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

James Taylor

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

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

James Taylor

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

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

James Taylor