top of page
Quote_1.png
James Taylor

"If you feel like singing along, don't."

Standard 
 Customized
"If you feel like singing along, don't."

Exlpore more Singing quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

Explore more quotes by James Taylor

Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"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."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"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."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent."
Quote_1.png
James Taylor
"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."
bottom of page