Quotes from James Taylor

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.

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

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.

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

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.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.