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James Taylor Inspirational Quotes (81)

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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.
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
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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.
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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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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.
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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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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.
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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.
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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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.
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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.
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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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
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