Pretending Quote by James Taylor Download Open image “I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.” — James Taylor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretending
I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which… — Kim Petras Copy Share Image
That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar 'cause my… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me,… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
For a while, I thought I would maybe be a writer. But with music, I was such a nerd; I was really obsessive about… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing… — John Prine 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
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
