240 Quotes by James Taylor


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    So we talked about the tune, we talked about the lyric and about how we would divide it up and approach it. There certainly wasn't time to say, 'By the way, do you remember 1965, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts? What was that all about?'

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    That one inning killed us; it killed us bad. We just have to step it up in the future and make the easy plays when we have them and not get rattled. One innocent play started it and it kind of snowballed from there. Suddenly we couldn't make a play.

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    It's been a number of years since I worked solo. That's all I used to do, and that's how I started out. So it's nice to get back to that every once in a while.

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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'm beginning to warm to the prospect of it. I've always liked the idea of other people singing my songs.

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    I tend to like things that I've written recently because it's fresh but then there are things that I think really turned out well. I'd say I'm still pretty proud of Sweet Baby James.

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