240 Quotes by James Taylor

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.

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.

I’m always making music. I’m constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

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.

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?

I don’t play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I am myself for a living. I don’t animate a character.

I can’t thank you enough for showing up. It’s not the same without you.

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