James Taylor Quotes

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

Life, Family, Down

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.
James Taylor

Moving, Important, Everything

Music is like a huge release of tension.
James Taylor

Music, Tension, Huge

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
James Taylor

Love, Pain, Others

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
James Taylor

Find, Feet, Outside

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
James Taylor

Love, Yourself, Whether

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
James Taylor

Life, Time, Secret

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

Done, Find, Try

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.
James Taylor

Life, Important, Everyone

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
James Taylor

Musicians, Suffer, Low

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor

Art, Motivation, Attention

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

Music, Guitar, Around

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
James Taylor

Marriage, Stand, Breaking

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
James Taylor

Character, Living, Animate

I don't think anyone really says anything new.
James Taylor

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.
James Taylor

Nature, Someone, Human

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.
James Taylor

Love, Ability, Europe

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
James Taylor

Blessings, Trying, Against

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.
James Taylor

Life, Boring, Makes

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.
James Taylor

Time, Emotional, Enough

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

Process, Mysterious, Direct

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
James Taylor

Pain, Makes, Face

A concert is always like a feast day to me.
James Taylor

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.
James Taylor

Work, Yourself, Live

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
James Taylor

Made, Difference, Seem

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Nationality: American

Born: March 12, 1948

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