James Taylor Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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

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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

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

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I can take criticisms but not compliments.

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I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

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

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

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The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.

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Music is like a huge release of tension.

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

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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

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

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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

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

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I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

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