American - Musician | March 12, 1948 -
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.
James Taylor
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
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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.
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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.
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Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
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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.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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