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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks. — 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
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
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
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it,… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that… — 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
![“['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown……” quote by James Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dac/james-taylor-2045_anxiety_fire-and-rain-is-sort-of-almost-uncomfor_2217366.jpg)
