Top 120 James Taylor Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

3. “Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

6. “Won’t you look down upon me Jesus, you’ve got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.”

— James Taylor

7. “Music reminds us that the universe loves us.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

10. “Shower the people you love with love.”

— James Taylor

11. “Don’t be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn’t need your sorrow. Don’t be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

14. “I collect hats. That’s what you do when you’re bald.”

— James Taylor

15. “I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I’d see you again.”

— James Taylor

16. “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.”

— James Taylor

17. “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.”

— James Taylor

18. “I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.”

— James Taylor

19. “I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

21. “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.”

— James Taylor

22. “Synchronized with the rising moon Even with the evening star They were true love written in stone They were never alone, they were never that far apart.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

24. “If you feel like singing along, don’t.”

— James Taylor

25. “To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.”

— James Taylor

26. “He’s halfway sick and halfway stoned. He’d sure like to kick, but he’s too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.”

— James Taylor

27. “I think it surprises a lot of people that I’m still around, you know, still – that I’m not pushing up daisies, as they say.”

— James Taylor

28. “I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.”

— James Taylor

29. “I think there’s probably a God-shaped hole in everybody’s being. Even if God only exists in people’s minds, He’s still a force.”

— James Taylor

30. “A concert is always like a feast day to me.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

32. “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

33. “I’m glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

35. “Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

40. “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

41. “You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.”

— James Taylor

42. “I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I’ll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.”

— James Taylor

43. “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.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

45. “I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.”

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

47. “All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one’s gonna bring me down.”

— James Taylor

48. “Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.”

— James Taylor

49. “If you’re an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It’s boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.”

— James Taylor

50. “Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.”

— James Taylor