James Taylor Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
James Taylor quotes and sayings page 6 (76 year old musician). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 81 we have for him.
“There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.”
“Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.”
“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.”
“When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.”
“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.”
“I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.”
“It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.”
“One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.”
“If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.”
“I don't think anyone really says anything new.”
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