About James Taylor: James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
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.
There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.
I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go...
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
Music is like a huge release of tension.
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validat...
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 don't read music. I don't write or read music.
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
