Top 80 Quotes by James Taylor

About James Taylor

These are some quotes by American author James Taylor Musician, who was born on March 12, 1948.

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

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

James Taylor

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

James Taylor

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

James Taylor

If you feel like singing along, don't.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

James Taylor

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

James Taylor

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

James Taylor

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.

James Taylor

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

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.

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

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.

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.

James Taylor

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