#us

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

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch. ↗

— James Taylor

#basically #brazil #catch #cultures #extremely

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

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready. ↗

— James Taylor

#i #important #important thing #just #knowing

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music. ↗

— James Taylor

#i #living #music #selling

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

— James Taylor

#long #long time #people #songs #style

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions. ↗

— James Taylor

#back #down #emotions #energy #experience

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you. ↗

— James Taylor

#helps #internal #just #see #somehow