Top 154 Quotes & Sayings by James Taylor - Page 3

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

It was like the top of the roof came off the house, .. He had that effect on everyone.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

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.

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.

Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

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.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and I'm in that world a lot now. I'm surprised at how difficult it is for people who are classically trained to read music or to memorize music, how difficult it is for them to improvise, to just go off and play. It's sort of, it's like terra incognita. They just, (makes noise) they don't get it.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

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.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

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.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.