86 Inspiring Quotes By James Taylor That Will Intensify Your Endearment For Him
James Taylor is a renowned American guitarist, singer and songwriter who has bagged in five ‘Grammy Awards’ and has been inducted into the ‘Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’ in 2000. As a child he learned to play cello and then later swapped it with guitar. He has sold more than 100 million albums throughout his career. He began his career in 1968 and was first signed by ‘The Beatles’ Apple record. Taylor has influenced many music lovers and songwriters. Some of his hit numbers include ‘Don’t Let Me Be Lonely’, ‘Fire and Rain’, ‘Something in the Way she Moves’, ‘Shed a Little Light’, ‘Walking Man’, ‘Caroline I See You’, ‘Your smiling Face’, ‘Never Die young’, and ‘Carolina In My Mind’. His first album, ‘Greatest Hits’ was certified diamond and sold more than 10 million copies. His recording ‘Before This World’ was rated the Number 1 album in 2015 in the U.S. We have compiled few famous quotations and sayings by the acclaimed artist which have been curated from his songs, writings, lyrics, verses, books and thoughts. Following is an assortment of quotes and thoughts by James Taylor which he has expressed on varied topics over the years. Hope you will enjoy it.
Music is like a huge release of tension.
Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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.
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?
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.
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.
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.
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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 am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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 believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
