Quotes from James Taylor

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

You know wherever I am, I'll come running to see you again

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground

Karen, she's a silver sun. You best walk her way and watch it shining...watch her watch the morning come.

There's a song that they sing when they take to the highway, a song that they sing when they take to the sea, a song that they sing of their home in the sky, maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep, but singing works just fine for me.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

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.

O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

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.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

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.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.