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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

From James Taylor

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

From James Taylor

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.

From James Taylor

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.

From James Taylor

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

From James Taylor

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

From James Taylor

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.

From James Taylor

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

From James Taylor

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

From James Taylor

James Taylor

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