James Taylor Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  James Taylor

  Feel Good, Gigs, Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Real, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  James Taylor

  Humorous, People, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

  James Taylor

  Numbers, Political, Lyrical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

  James Taylor

  Grateful, Play, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

  James Taylor

  Commitment, Holy Ground, Partnership

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

  James Taylor

  People, Albums, Easier

  "James Taylor: Streaming Businesses Should Pay Artists Half". Associated Press Interview, www.azcentral.com. June 19, 2015.

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• People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

  James Taylor

  People, Listening, Quality

  "James Taylor: Streaming businesses should pay artists half". Associated Press Interview, www.azcentral.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I can take criticisms but not compliments.

  James Taylor

  Criticism, Compliment, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you feel like singing along, don't.

  James Taylor

  Singing, Feels, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart

  James Taylor

  Stars, Moon, Rising

  Song: Never Die Young, 1988

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• It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

  James Taylor

  Song, Writing, I Can

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it.

  James Taylor

  Boston, Play, Symphony

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

  James Taylor

  Music, Song, Guitar

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• I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Opposites, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  James Taylor

  Hands, Mouths, Musician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

  James Taylor

  Travel, Sunshine, Mind

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• I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

  James Taylor

  Thinking, Isolated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

  James Taylor

  Song, Voice, Phones

  "James Taylor's Back With New Music On 'Before This World'". "Here & Now" with Robin Young, www.wbur.org. June 16, 2015.

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• Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

  James Taylor

  Home, Night, Soldier

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• I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

  James Taylor

  People, Very Good, Term

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  James Taylor

  Fun, Home, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  James Taylor

  Impact, Long, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

  James Taylor

  Revenge, Enemy, Knees

  Song: Money Machine, Album: In The Pocket

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• Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

  James Taylor

  Reading, Superstar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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