James Taylor Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
James Taylor quotes and sayings page 4 (76 year old musician). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 81 we have for him.
“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.”
“I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.”
“I can take criticisms but not compliments.”
“It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.”
“Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!”
“Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.”
“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.”
“I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.”
“I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.”
“What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.”
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