James Taylor Quotes
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like
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.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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.
Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
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.
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.
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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.
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.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
