Quotes by James Taylor

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.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.

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.

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

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.