James Taylor Quotes About Songs

• No falta mucho para otro día, vamos a pasarlo bien. Y nadie nos va a quitar ese tiempo. Puedes quedarte todo el tiempo que quieras

  James Taylor

  Relación, Canción, Tiempo

  Canción: You Can Close Your Eyes

• 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.

  James Taylor

  Song, Emotional, Discovery

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

• ['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.

  James Taylor

  Song, Rain, Writing

• I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

  James Taylor

  Song, Doe, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  James Taylor

  Song, Rain, Writing

• I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

  James Taylor

  Música, Canción, Guitarra

• I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.

  James Taylor

  Song, Writing, Chicks

• 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.

  James Taylor

  Song, Voice, Phones

  "James Taylor's Back With New Music On 'Before This World'". "Here & Now" with Robin Young, www.wbur.org. June 16, 2015.

• 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.

  James Taylor

  Song, Home, Two

  Fuente: www.npr.org

• 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.

  James Taylor

  Song, Thinking, Way

  "Why James Taylor is still ‘endlessly interested’ in making music". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. Jun 30, 2015.

• It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

  James Taylor

  Song, Writing, I Can

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

  James Taylor

  Fashion, Song, Falling In Love

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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