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'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'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
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks. — 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
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
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 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
A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You… — 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
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
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
The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Won't you look down upon me, Jesus, You've got to help me make a stand. — 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 what's not. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way. — 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
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 Image
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