James Taylor quotes - page 4

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. (James Taylor)
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
James Taylor
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
James Taylor
Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
James Taylor
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor
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.
James Taylor
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?
James Taylor
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.
James Taylor
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
James Taylor
I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it. (James Taylor)
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
James Taylor
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
James Taylor
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
James Taylor
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
James Taylor
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.
James Taylor
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.
James Taylor
If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
James Taylor
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
James Taylor