“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.”

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.