American - Musician | March 12, 1948 -
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
James Taylor
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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.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
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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.
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