"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you." ― James Taylor Topic(s): Music More From James Taylor "I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself." "Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand." "Though ‘Fire and Rain’ is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that’s what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience." More In Music "The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead."― Igor Stravinsky "I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs."― Brian Eno "I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays… maybe I could."― Jordin Sparks