My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball! — James Taylor Audience Copy Share Image
Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar. — James Taylor Control Copy Share Image
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought that I'd see you again. — James Taylor Friend 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 Guitar Copy Share Image
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,… — 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 God Copy Share Image
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you… — James Taylor Americans Copy Share Image
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… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between… — James Taylor Consciousness 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
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice… — James Taylor Age 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 Audience 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
You just call out my name, and you know where ever I am I'll come running to see you again. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet. — James Taylor Bare feet Copy Share Image
When you're down and troubled and you need a helping hand and nothing, whoa, nothing is going right. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams? — James Taylor Blues Copy Share Image
You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese. — James Taylor Enemies Copy Share Image
There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to… — James Taylor Data 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
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. — James Taylor Faces Copy Share Image
The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies,… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
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… — 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
“Karen, she's a silver sun. You best walk her way and watch it shining...watch her watch the morning come.” — James Taylor Karen Copy Share Image
Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. — James Taylor Art Copy Share Image
Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind. — James Taylor Animal Copy Share Image
The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport — James Taylor Copy Share Image
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it. — James Taylor Consciousness Copy Share Image
You were better to me than I was to myself. For me, there's you and there ain't nobody else. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
