James Taylor Quotes - Page 3

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.

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.

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.

The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.

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

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

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.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

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.

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

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

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.

Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.

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

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

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.

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.