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"53 James Taylor Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 March 1948 | Musician |
We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
Face Grow Makes Pain
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The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
Enjoying Life Passage Secret
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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Buy Money Take Time
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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.

Being Boat Clear Everything
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Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

Certain Certain Things Crap Everyone
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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

Audience Bald Ball Difference
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Am Animate Character I Am
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I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

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

Believe Duty I Believe Love
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I can take criticisms but not compliments.

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

About Certainly Does Everything
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Around Guitar Itself Music
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I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Compliments Easily Extent I Think
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I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Anyone Anything New Really
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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Being Could Out Pretending
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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.

Because Between Connection Consciousness
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Always Beings I Think Isolated
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I was in chemical jail.

Chemical Was Jail
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I was a functional addict.

Addict A Was Functional
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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.

Bus Coming Hand Know
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If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.

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

Agree Music Self Absorbed Sentimental
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If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

Addict Becomes Boring Controls
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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.

Before Coming Delightful Ever
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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.

Because Expect Failure Foolish
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Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

Am Important Important Thing Just
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
Huge Like Music Release
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

Benefits Energy Everyone Get
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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.

Addiction Avoid Before Controls
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Breaking Breaking Up Marriage Responsible
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Front Helps Internal Just
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Artist Attention Kind Motivation
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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.

Come Defend Done Get
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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.

About Activity Any Cleaned
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
Choose Love Love Yourself To Love
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I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

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

Began Control Get Out
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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?

After How Know Like
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Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Enjoy Living Music Selling
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

Because Find Get Heavy
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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.

First Go Here Lyric
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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

Actually Almost Come May
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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.

Around I Think Know Lot
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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Any Direct Me Mysterious
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Against Amazingly Blessings How
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

Anything Basically Brazil Catch
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

Audience Been Being Bother
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I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

Ability Europe Glad Love
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
Always Concert Day Feast
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