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

-- James Taylor

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“I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.”
“I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.”
“It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.”
“Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.”
“Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.”
“Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Visions and hope and faith are not part of science. They are beyond the nature that science knows. Of such is the religion that gives meaning to life.”
“However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.”
“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2000). “Roads: Driving America's Great Highways”

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