Quote

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

James Taylor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Hats
Bald
Collect

More quotes by James Taylor

Image
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
James Taylor
Image
It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
James Taylor
Image
I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
James Taylor
Image
When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
James Taylor
Image
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
James Taylor
Image
Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
James Taylor
Image
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
Image
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
James Taylor
Image
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
James Taylor
Image
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
James Taylor
Image
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
James Taylor
Image
Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
James Taylor
Image
Music reminds us that the universe loves us
James Taylor
Image
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
Image
There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
James Taylor
Image
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
Image
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.
James Taylor