#being

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

#boat #clear #everything #falls #important

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

#being #being quiet #discovery #emotional #emotional experiences

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms. ↗

— James Taylor

#been #being #bother #celebrated #contact

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. ↗

— James Taylor

#could #i #out #pretending #songwriter

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be. ↗

— James Taylor

#beings #i #i think #isolated #think

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself! ↗

— James Taylor

#afford #being #figure #forward #i

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way. ↗

— James Taylor

#autobiographical #being #especially #everyone #get

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them. ↗

— James Taylor

#by the people #entertainment #interest #news #now

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#been #being #cd #days #finished

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#all day #anything #being #dawn #day