240 Quotes by James Taylor

I don’t build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There’s a well on the hill, let it be.

Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.

I know there are people who don’t like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good – they don’t bother me and when they do contact me it’s usually on the nicest possible terms.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

O, it’s enough to be on your way. It’s enough just to cover ground. It’s enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

I think that American music, for me, it’s a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.

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.

If you feel like singing along, don’t.