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
beatles certainly europe growing handful huge listened resource sources talk took travel
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.
dreams flying machines pieces sweet
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
absolutely bad
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.
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.
romantic heart sculpture
Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.
impact long age
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.
numbers political lyrical
I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
able looking-forward figures
I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
humorous people interesting
What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.