Quote

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

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
Really
Realize
Becomes
Realizing
Times
Phrasing
Means
Polished
Right
Finished
Mean
Played
Writing
Road

More quotes by James Taylor

Image
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
James Taylor
Image
Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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
Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
James Taylor
Image
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.
James Taylor
Image
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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
In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
James Taylor
Image
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
James Taylor
Image
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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
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
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
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
Image
Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
James Taylor
Image
I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
James Taylor
Image
He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
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