All James Taylor Quotes
- I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it. Ability
- If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. Absorbed
- Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch. Brazil
- Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. Any
- I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone… Connection
- A concert is always like a feast day to me. Always Like
- Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true. Bruce
- Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball! Audience
- I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald. Bald
- I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way. Moral
- I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die. Accept
- I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. Inspirational
- I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page… Firsts
- I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say. Daisies
- I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be. All
- I was a functional addict. Addict
- I was in chemical jail. Chemical
- I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself! Able
- If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean. Clean
- If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things. Feel
- It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth… Coming
- It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. Autobiographical
- It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more… Chunks
- Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely. Benefits
- Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you. Externalize