James Taylor Quotes
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Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.
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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.
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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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Shower the people you love with love.
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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
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I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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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.
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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.
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Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won't you let me go down in my dreams?
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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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['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.
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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.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.
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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
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I was in chemical jail.
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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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