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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

#being #being quiet #discovery #emotional #emotional experiences

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand. ↗

— James Taylor

#breaking up #marriage #responsible #sobering #stand

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

— James Taylor

#certainly #does #everything #god #i

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 started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. ↗

— James Taylor

#could #i #out #pretending #songwriter

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be. ↗

— James Taylor

#beings #i #i think #isolated #think

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

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before. ↗

— James Taylor

#coming #delightful #ever #guitar #happens

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

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure. ↗

— James Taylor

#expect #failure #foolish #forever #go