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Song Quotes by James Taylor
- 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…
- 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.
- I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
- It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to…
- The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.
- I needed someone to understand my ups and downs, there you were.
- You were better to me than I was to myself. For me, there's you and there ain't nobody else.
- I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song.
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- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
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- You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
- Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with. — Sebastian Bach
- I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not… — Sebastian Bach
- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams