Latest James Taylor Quotes from Interviews

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• Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

  James Taylor

  Age, World, Mystery

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.

  James Taylor

  Art, Social Media, Promotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

  James Taylor

  Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

  James Taylor

  Mean, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

  James Taylor

  Fashion, Song, Falling In Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

  James Taylor

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.

  James Taylor

  Party, Blood, Nuts

  Source: www.dontbelievethehype.biz

• I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

  James Taylor

  Spiritual, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

  James Taylor

  Looks, Consciousness, Trouble

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

• 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

• In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

  James Taylor

  Song, Thinking, Way

  "Why James Taylor is still ‘endlessly interested’ in making music". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. Jun 30, 2015.

• 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.

• 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.

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

  James Taylor

  Commitment, Holy Ground, Partnership

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

• My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

  James Taylor

  Brother, Strong, Rhythm And Blues

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

• I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.

  James Taylor

  Song, Home, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.