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Writing Quotes by James Taylor
- 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…
- I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
- I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
- 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…
- There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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