240 Quotes by James Taylor

I was backstage when James called me back to the stage again to sing 'How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)' with him. I don't even feel like it was me up there. It was so intense.

We are part of the community, and we need investigation to be proactive, to look to the outside, to encourage people to come up with bright ideas.

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.

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.

You have to brace yourself for the smell. It is a really bad stench. It is disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

There are a dozen or so songs people are expecting to hear, ... You don't do them all, but you put six or seven of those songs in the set. And you try to vary the arrangement of things that are familiar.

We're the only deep-water port in Skagit County. Somehow we don't want to tie it all up with restaurants.

I've seen fire and I've seen rain, I've seen sunny days I thought would never end, I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought I'd see you again

I've always worked all my life and now I need a hand, not a handout. That's why I'm here.