James Taylor Quotes

Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

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.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

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 to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Shower the people you love with love.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

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 find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.

['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 couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

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 an element of alienation in your life.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

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 that wasn't there before.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

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 else.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

We could never have guessed We were already blessed where we are.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

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 sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

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.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

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 Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.

I was in chemical jail.

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.

I was a functional addict.