Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Taylor

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

James Taylor

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

James Taylor

I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.

James Taylor

It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

James Taylor

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

James Taylor

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

James Surowiecki

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.

James Patterson

Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears.

James Montgomery

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

James Mackintosh

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

James Mangold

We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

James Macdonald

[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.

James Lee

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

Joe Perry

Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS!

Joe Perry

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

Joe Perry

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Joe Perry

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

Joe Perry

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

Joe Perry

Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.

Joe Nichols

I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.

Joe Nichols

I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in.

Joe Nichols

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

Joe Nichols

Music is also supposed to be fun. On this record, (titled 'III'), I really had the desire again to jump back into some good-time, fun-loving songs.

Joe Nichols

I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.

John Fund

There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who can’t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.

John Frusciante

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

John Frusciante

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

John Frusciante

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

John Frusciante

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

John Drinkwater

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Dos Passos

There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.

John Edward

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

John Morrison

I'm John Morrison, and if God have 2 sons i would be the better looking one.