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
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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 over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.
mysterious process songwriting
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
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You have to brace yourself for the smell. It is a really bad stench. It is disgusting, absolutely disgusting.
writing-songs pretending songwriting
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
universe
Music reminds us that the universe loves us
self-esteem thinking suffering
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
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I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.
love-yourself
You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
impossible-situations people creative
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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.
romantic heart sculpture
Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.