#her

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

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done. ↗

— James Taylor

#defend #done #get #hours #phase

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. ↗

— Jane Taylor

#help #i #kiss #make #me

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#certain #conscience #god #good #him

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#anger #cause #either #fury #great

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#burns #does #friend #golden #hearts