Top 120 James Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— James Taylor

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. “Shower the people you love with love.”

— James Taylor

10. “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

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

14. “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

15. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

30. “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

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

33. “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

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

38. “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

39. “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

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

42. “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

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

47. “Bruce Springsteen’s a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I’m a folk musician. Honestly, I think that’s true.”

— James Taylor

48. “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

49. “I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without – I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.”

— James Taylor

50. “All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.”

— James Taylor