“I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.”

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He became widely known in the early 1970s, and his name is closely tied to the songs that made him a major voice in popular music. He has 80 quotes on the site. Taylor broke through with "Fire and Rain", which reached No. 3, and earned his first No. 1 hit in 1971 with his version of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend". His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and sold 11 million copies in the United States alone, placing it among the best-selling albums in American history.