“Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.”

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.