Quote

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.

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
Never
Days
Would
Seen
Fire
Times
Sunny
Ends
Grieving
Thought
Lonely
Find
Rain
Always
Friend

More quotes by James Taylor

Image
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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
I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.
James Taylor
Image
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
James Taylor
Image
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
James Taylor
Image
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.
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
I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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
Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
James Taylor
Image
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
James Taylor
Image
In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
James Taylor