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“I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.”
-- James Taylor

#Self Esteem #Thinking #Suffering
“My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.”
-- James Taylor

#Strong #Brother #Alex
“It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like”
-- James Taylor

#Long #Another Day #Good Times
“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

#Song #Thinking #Energy
“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”
-- James Taylor

#Music #Stars #Pain
“I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.”
-- James Taylor

#Song #Phones #Voice
“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.”
-- James Taylor

#Time #Secret #Musician
“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

#Song #Home #Years
“To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.”
-- James Taylor

#People #Creative #Way
“I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.”
-- James Taylor

#Grateful #Play #People
“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

#Writing #Guitar #Wander
“The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.”
-- James Taylor

#Commitment #Partnership #Holy
“Music is like a huge release of tension.”
-- James Taylor

#Release #Music Is #Tension
“It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it...”
-- James Taylor

#People #Albums #Easier
“If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.”
-- James Taylor

#Thinking #Self #Sentimental
“People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.”
-- James Taylor

#People #Listening #Quality
“I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.”
-- James Taylor

#Football #Play #Kind
“I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.”
-- James Taylor

#Believe #I Believe #Importance
“Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.”
-- James Taylor

#Musical #Culture #Brazil
“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

#Guitar #Mouths #Coming Out
“I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.”
-- James Taylor

#Pretending #Songwriting
“Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.”
-- James Taylor

#Time #Money
“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.”
-- James Taylor

#Nature #Thinking #People
“A concert is always like a feast day to me.”
-- James Taylor

#Concerts
“The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart”
-- James Taylor

#Heart #Love Is #Opening Up
“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.”
-- James Taylor

#Music #Play #People
“You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.”
-- James Taylor

#Love Yourself
“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

#Song #Emotional #Discovery
“That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.”
-- James Taylor

#Motivational #Art #Attention
“I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.”
-- James Taylor

#Feet #Bare Feet

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