James Taylor Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.”

“I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.”

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

“It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.”

“The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.”