QUOTES by James Taylor
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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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"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."
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"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."
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"It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure."
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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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"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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"When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical."
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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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"What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous."
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"The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it."
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"I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next."
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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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"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."
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"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well."
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"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things."
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"Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready."
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"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."
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"Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?"
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"I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical."
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"I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite."
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"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."
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"People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time."
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"The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side."
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"Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do."
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"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself."
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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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"If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean."
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