James Taylor
James Taylor
James Vernon Tayloris an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth12 March 1948
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
dozen expecting people seven six songs vary
There are a dozen or so songs people are expecting to hear, ... You don't do them all, but you put six or seven of those songs in the set. And you try to vary the arrangement of things that are familiar.
people songs teach time
People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.
song writing i-can
It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
song voice phones
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.
song thinking way
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.
song rain writing
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.
song writing chicks
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
music song guitar
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
song home years
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.
mysterious process songwriting
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
song emotional discovery
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.
writing-songs pretending songwriting
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
song rain writing
['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.
song doe wells
I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.