James Taylor Quotes
James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
(1948 - )
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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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.
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Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
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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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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
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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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I can take criticisms but not compliments.
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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 read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
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I don't think anyone really says anything new.
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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
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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.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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I was a functional addict.
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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.
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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
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