James Taylor Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
• Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the…
• I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
• Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.
• I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I…
• 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 realize what it…
• Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people,…
• ['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…
• 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…
• Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
• I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
• I can take criticisms but not compliments.
• I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
• I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
• Shower the people you love with love.
• Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
• Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

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