#cia

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others. ↗

— James Taylor

#duty #i #i believe #love #musicians

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. ↗

— James Taylor

#easily #extent #i #i think #low

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. ↗

— James Taylor

#away #business #crop #else #glad

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from. ↗

— James Taylor

#coming #hand #i #know #life

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way. ↗

— James Taylor

#autobiographical #being #especially #everyone #get

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

— James Taylor

#by the people #entertainment #interest #news #now

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#down #everyone #hungry #i #i tried

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#because #did #especially #even #i

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#black #blues #changed #clubs #especially

In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#beginning #contract #convince #every #every time