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
love-yourself
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
strong brother rhythm-and-blues
My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.
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.
writing elements singers
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.
football play kind
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
spiritual strong kings
Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.
writing guitar-music guitar
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
winter weather records
The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.
impossible-situations people creative
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
strong philosophy connections
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
suicidal wife long
Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
song writing chicks
I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
house roof effects
It was like the top of the roof came off the house, .. He had that effect on everyone.
adversity thinking guy
There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.