If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed… — James Taylor Copy Share
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. — James Taylor Copy Share
O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it… — James Taylor Copy Share
Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will. — James Taylor Copy Share
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some… — James Taylor Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. — James Taylor Copy Share
I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way. — James Taylor Copy Share
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. — James Taylor Copy Share
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my… — James Taylor Copy Share
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… — James Taylor Copy Share
I'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… — James Taylor Copy Share
