James Taylor People Quotations

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it...

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

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.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Shower the people you love with love.

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.

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.

There are a dozen or so songs people are expecting to hear, ... You don't do them all, but you put six or seven of those songs in the set. And you try to vary the arrangement of things that are familiar.

We are part of the community, and we need investigation to be proactive, to look to the outside, to encourage people to come up with bright ideas.

I'm beginning to warm to the prospect of it. I've always liked the idea of other people singing my songs.