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James Taylor
American
Musician
Born:
Mar 12
,
1948
Being
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor
Art
Kind
Some
Seek
Attention
Motivation
Artist
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.
James Taylor
Water
Important
Everything
Through
Clear
Terms
Falls
Being
Place
Moving
Boat
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
James Taylor
Love
Musicians
Responsibility
Duty
Pain
Believe
Others
Out
Share
Reach
Your
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
James Taylor
Love
You
Love Yourself
Yourself
Whether
To Love
Choose
Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.
James Taylor
Important
Knowing
Ready
Am
Important Thing
Very
Quit
Just
Thing
If you feel like singing along, don't.
James Taylor
You
Singing
Feel
Along
Like
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.
James Taylor
Me
Guitar
Before
Mouth
Out
Something
Delightful
Most
Coming
Hear
Happens
Ever
Thing
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor
Music
Guitar
Starts
Something
Write
Until
Read
Around
Itself
Wander
Present
It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
James Taylor
Time
You
Enough
Peek
Musical
Way
Out
Emotional
Emotional Experiences
Songs
Period
Sort
Discovery
Undisturbed
Begin
Quiet
Being
Experiences
Process
Being Quiet
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
James Taylor
Music
Power
Believe
Percent
Importance
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
James Taylor
Buy
Time
Money
Will
Take
Your
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
James Taylor
Musicians
Think
Easily
Compliments
Some
Take
Most
Self-Esteem
Very
Low
Low Self-Esteem
Suffer
Extent
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
Failure
Lasts
Relationships
Say
Something
Only
Foolish
Because
Go
Years
Forever
Expect
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
James Taylor
Life
Family
You
People
Three
Before
Down
Settle
Addiction
Out
Major
Ready
Debt
Get
Controls
Should
Your
Avoid
Deeply
Things
Start
Watch
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
James Taylor
Music
Enjoy
Living
Selling
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
You
People
Think
Say
Pushing
Know
Around
Still
Surprises
Lot
Up
They Say
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
James Taylor
Day
Me
Feast
Like
Concert
Always
I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
James Taylor
You
Collect
Hats
Bald
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.
James Taylor
Work
You
Yourself
Long
Before
Live
Release
Promote
Impact
Performance
Make
Because
American
Any
Size
Place
Themselves
Ages
Away
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
James Taylor
Myself
Character
Living
Animate
Am
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
James Taylor
God
Everything
About
Songs
Know
Well
Does
Then
Much
Certainly
Originate
I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
James Taylor
Will
Think
Totally
Always
Isolated
Beings
I was in chemical jail.
James Taylor
Chemical
Jail
It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.
James Taylor
Day
You
Every Day
Every
Chunks
Way
Find
Costly
More
Years
Huge
After
Happens
Much
Hard
Forward
Growth
Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.
James Taylor
Reading
Control
Out
Superstar
Began
Get
Things
Started
Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?
James Taylor
Myself
Me
Tell
Photographers
Like
Know
Mostly
Read
How
Reporters
Want
After
Them
Really
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