41 Best James Taylor Quotes and Lyrics

1- “You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.”

2- “I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”

3- “I don’t know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.”

4- “There ain’t no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around”

5- “I know now one thing only matters in these days… true love… love and love alone.”

6- “O, it’s enough to be on your way. It’s enough just to cover ground. It’s enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.”

7- “I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.”

8- “I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.”

9- “We could never have guessed We were already blessed where we are.”

10- “Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.”

11- “We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.”

12- “Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I’ll be there, ’cause you’ve got a friend.”

13- “Music reminds us that the universe loves us”

14- “Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.”

15- “Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young”

16- “The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.”

17- “It won’t be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like”

18- “That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.”

19- “Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.”

20- “Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.”

21- “I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it’s not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.”

22- “Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I’m in love with you.”

23- “Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.”

24- “Music is like a huge release of tension.”

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

26- “Being on a boat that’s moving through the water, it’s so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what’s important and what’s not.”

27- “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.”

28- “I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.”

29- “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.”

30- “It’s the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.”

31- “Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose Won’t you let me go down in my dreams?”

32- “I don’t build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There’s a well on the hill, let it “be.

33- “Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.”

34- “I am myself for a living. I don’t animate a character.”

35- “I can’t thank you enough for showing up. It’s not the same without you.”

36- “Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.”

37- “Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.”

38- “Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.”

39- “Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.”

40- “No one can tell me that I’m doing wrong.”

41- “Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock ‘n’ roll into the new age of today’s instantaneous and fast world.”