240 Quotes by James Taylor

It’s easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it...

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.

I’m grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.

I collect hats. That’s what you do when you’re bald.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that – like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn’t be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that – what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.

Karen, she’s a silver sun. You best walk her way and watch it shining... watch her watch the morning come.

There ain’t no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around.