#her

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#character #choose #chosen #creatures #fall

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#conscience #men #most #opinions #others

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not. ↗

— James Taylor

#love #love yourself #to love #whether #you

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 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. ↗

— James Taylor

#been #being #bother #celebrated #contact

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five. ↗

— James Taylor

#bought #carolina #cello #father #fourteen

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. ↗

— James Taylor

#go #here #i #lyric #make

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

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them? ↗

— James Taylor

#how #i #know #like #me

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#earth #eternity #given #god #god hath