Charlie Rose - James Taylor

[ChiroQuacker]

i never thought i'd see the day that i was better looking then james taylor..but i have...he is bald..i have a full head of healthy hair...i look cool...he looks like some douche bank manager you'd see in some some town...and i am fun and lively and in this clip he is a friggin bore..

the guy made one great album back in 1971 and he's been trading off of it for over 40 friggin years

[tonypicc47]

@ChiroQuacker Asshole

[ChiroQuacker]

@tonypicc47

you are really bald too...lose the moustache and put down the donuts..you look like you got more "chins" then the hong kong phone book

[tonypicc47]

@ChiroQuacker - A racist who can't spell. It's "than" not "then". If you're going to attempt an insult, at least learn the language. I notice you haven't posted a picture, so until then, troll on.

[ChiroQuacker]

@tonypicc47

i can spell "bald""...i can spell "pasty-faced old fart"...

[webstercat]

This is crude but I sometime think that the interviewer is the pot into which the subject shits.

[Baci302]

@webstercat Exactly my first reaction. Of course, no one else played James' guitar style before him. It is unique and beautiful. But the interviewer should have asked a more simple and direct question: what guitarists did you emulate (steal from? hey, we all do) as you developed your own style?

[thankfullman]

If I had 1/10th of his talent, I would be happy! He is a thoughtful, intelligent speaker, careful and patient. What's not to like? Too many people shoot there mouth off without thinking, and deliver a load of rubbish. Rock on James, you are my favourite artist, I have every single record you have released, and will continue to buy anything you put out. You are quite simply a genius and master!

[2handsforchrist]

James' son Ben once said that James is not real real open to sharing his works that are in progress so for James to try to tell how he came up musically...it's got to be a struggle for him to just speak and explain it all.

[karenina56]

When JT is singing and playing, that's his true nature. Trying to parse it all out and explain how it works is hard--because the music comes first. THAT'S his language. Being asked to tell how it happens is like explaining to someone how you breathe.

[Rachelmariaaa]

@karenina56 SO well put! You explained that for all the introspective musicians.

[rickcee]

He's not affected. That's JT. And yes, it CAN be a bit annoying, but it's genuine. In a concert setting he's quite funny. Dry wit, but the stumbling and bumbling is still there in his delivery.

[Mondibaby]

why does James Taylor look like an accountant in this interview ... what happened to the sweet longhaired boy in jeans ...

[ViennaForever]

@lotusalivelight EXACTLY! May your cosmically aligned essence radiate quintessentially esoterically driven rhythm poems expanding matriculantly over the C minor enveloped within the Didache construct imposed on the Aolian Mode. And then some!

[TerrySleeper]

This is awful.

Taylor just looks embarrassed.

Listen to the music.

[RJiminez51]

charlie looks like he needs a nap.

[wwwjohnjewelcom]

Musicology is an artform and a very important part of history. I like it when they go round about the horners, and up throught the basment , its an introduction not for serious dj's. ok just listen it.s an interview un political , its musical and nice !

[lotusalivelight]

A truest Troubadour of the real-universal (objective / that becomes subjective), truths within us ALL, when we are looking at the details with our heart-mind, &seeing it correctly, with both eyes... then "Love' is (not) so unwise, because then Love has (both) eyes." JT brings self-reflection to song-poetry, with objectivity directed at feelings. Thank you for being so 'self-reflectively-centered' in the subjective-objective, JT ! Thanks Charlie Rose, as always. :*)

[01672750]

@ViennaForever

Not surprising you were a DJ... Rapid, superficial speach where meaning is of little importance and deep meaning is not a possibility

More depressing to see the short attention span group agreeing with you.

Hope this wasn't too wordy for you.

[ViennaForever]

@01672750 You are right. TOO WORDY. Nothing to do with attention span deficit. Much more to do with fawning pretentiousness. If JT's music were a portal to God Himself. One album and you were strolling through heaven, yeah, then I might allow the three of them to hem and haw as if mere words were not descriptive enough to describe the essence of James Taylor's magnificence. He is SIMPLY a wonderful musician; enough to enjoy in simple fashion without the Dalai Lama treatment.

[fortehlulz9999]

ROSE: So, James do you like candy?

TAYLOR: Well, I-uh-um-I-uh-uh-uh-I-uh-um-I-u­h-uh-uh.

ROSE: Wonderful!

[chanctonbury63]

Taylor looks like a senior banker these days!

[NYCBG]

Interesting, Vienna! In principle, I think that the guy is sooooo overrated. I stopped watching him years ago, after I had really tried my best for many a broadcast. If the topic doesn't interest him (which shows on his face) or he happens to be inebriated (which also shows on his face), he will waste so many great opportunities to take the conversation in a potentially more riveting direction. It's like, he has his list of questions and that's it. He treats some guests like they are props.

[dosomethin888]

Thats not charlie rose thats an asian!

[fortehlulz9999]

What a bumbling, stuttering, sputtering retard.

[jimnado1]

@fortehlulz9999 ur so cruel!

[corso02860]

@fortehlulz9999 LOL! So brief and poignant. I'm bringing this to work tomorrow. I know just who to use it for. Thanks.

[sixstring49]

Shave the hair completely James!!..then get back the 'stache!!! You are a great looking man!! Love your music!

[tdbass2]

1 min 20 sec in a 3 min clip, before James gets to open his mouth. WTF Spot on, ViennaForever.

[bdyftns]

We need more JT's in this world. What a gentle caring person.

[PocoPortillo]

JT music and story telling always seems to create a mood. The people you miss,love and just hanging out with. When my uncle was in Nam he tells me everytime time he heard JT he thought of home. JT is so American no matter where you hear him I think of home,my wife and my country(USA).

[ejgiv]

What is it about James Taylor's voice? It was forced down our throats by rich record companies. As far as pure talent goes I would not say that Taylor is anything particularly special.

[MrClipper23]

@ejgiv Listen to "Carolina in my Mind" again. Pure brilliance. So is "Fire and Rain." The other songs are a little bland. But those two songs alone are epic achievements. I can't think of anything better than them.

[ejgiv]

@MrClipper23 He did develop a unique style of finger picking and had a couple of great songs. I will give you that. But as a singer I find very him annoying. I think of his ex-wife Carley Simon everytime I hear his voice. He doesn't open his mouth when he sings. Otherwise, he's just another softy, leftist, ex-junkie billionaire, but a real artist he is not, never was.

[heavnnnsent]

@MrClipper23 Oh you've got to be putting me on. I can name tons of songs JT wrote and performed which are pure brilliance - not just 2. It must be a curse to be born with such discerning tastes ~ where I come from, anyone who doesn't like James Taylor is deemed clinically depressed and promptly perscribed anti-depressants.

[MrSteveUtah]

@ejgiv you useless piece of crap,,I can only think what talentless losers you listen to

[ejgiv]

@MrSteveUtah But I always spoke so highly of you. ;--()

[liamys]

It's true that James Taylor coud do with a little loosening up but this is the way he has always been. Even in the sixties he would mumble and grope for words and always seemed more shy than anything else. This maybe a little annoying to the average person but I don't think that James Taylor is trying to be anything he is not. That is just the way he is.

[MsDiesIrae9]

James Taylor is the biggest pussy in pop music next to Stephen Bishop and he's a puling Leftist, to boot. He has some good songs but he needs to just stick to music and keep his dentured gob shut.

[reachingsumwhere]

@MsDiesIrae9 I really could give a s**t about his politics. I'm in my 20s but I still grew up on James Taylor thru my parents, and hearing him is, to say the least, a true comfort

[MsDiesIrae9]

@reachingsumwhere No one asked you what you think, junior. So take your leftist loving hippie bong hitting attitude and go fuck yourself. :)

[Drastam]

@MsDiesIrae9 sounds like you specialise in being a ass...I pity the folks that have to put up with you

[Drastam]

@MsDiesIrae9 What a rude ass you are.

[MrSteveUtah]

@MsDiesIrae9 I see a tosser somewhere,,is it you

[ViennaForever]

@Reverendjim  True enough, I will grant Charlie Rose his due on that.

[spd13062]

"I write songs"........humble enough?

[maxthetax]

J.T it's simple the best!

[RollingOrmond]

JT went to my Uncle's prep school Milton at the same time in the 60's. Look him up - worthless drunk named Minot Davis, lives on 22 Everett st., Newport, RI.

[WilburyVision]

I was playing the CD Sweet Baby James this week - what a beautiful classic album that was.

[41jimmyp]

earthlings.... pay close attention... it doesn't get any better than this...

[alexeyre]

James is suffering from I-Woke-Up-One-Day-And-Looked-J­ust-Like -My-Dad Syndrome...we all get it eventually.

[Pickininvt]

James Taylor in a suit!

Very distinguished! If we had never known him as a musical genius, he could pass off as a Wall Streeter!

[Skyman46]

He doesn't seem comfortable in a suit..

[m0ore00]

Also, as I'm sure people are aware, Taylor is a self taught musician.

I think this is the basis for his comments.

Yoyo Ma is just a prodigy. And it shows in his comments.

[m0ore00]

Yoyo Ma is a very articulate and eloquent speaker. I don't think it means that he is self-absorbed or narcissistic. In person he speaks much the same, but you can tell he is a wonderful human. James is the same way.

But in their music, they ARE self-absorbed. They are the creative force in the music, even when they are accompanied. Both of these men are geniuses.

[fuckgegg]

I agree, they are both geniuses!!!

[mtb416]

Well put moore. Perhaps you are saying that they represent both the self-expressive and technical side of music? They are both equally important. What I see when watching this is how much easier it is to explain technical aspects rather than self-expressive ones, the latter only really capable of being done through the music itself. An accompanying dialogue could never take place. Not sure if I am being clear ;)

[mcgiver02]

two guys : one bald one with receding hailine...

GOD, how YOU do terrible things to men

[chizmo7]

Yeah, this is all about hair.

[AllusCats]

J.T. is a very gifted musician/writer. When you write a song and you sing it, yourself you're going to sound like you doing it. When someone else sings it, the song lives on in the style of their feel [of what is there]. Music or lyrics, both combine to form a feeling in the artist and they take it away to where they live in music and in their dreams. Rose puts people on the spot to come up to what he wants from them for his show. James is shy; Dylan & Neil are not & would've controlled.

[ViennaForever]

I just despise, in general, Charlie Rose interviews. Everyone starts affecting this pseudo-intellectual stumbling bumbling pseudo-humble manner of talking about themselves or the person in question as if the subject matter is almost too deep for words! I love James Taylor, was a DJ when he started, helped promote his first concert in Tampa, Florida, but, give me a break! He writes songs, he sings them, many are memorable--no need to stumble and fumble around as if searching for common words!

[rpowarz]

He's just too deep for you, MR. dj. ;o)

[justwarren]

This is not a positive, "happy" comment, but you are absolutely on target. I too love James Taylor and YoYo Ma, only Charlie Rose could reduce both of them to narcassicstic, self absorbed stars, struggling for words to describe...themselves! Yikes Rose is impressive in his ability to reduce otherwise good people to this common, nauseating ground!

[mcgiver02]

absolutely right:

no need to stumble and fumble around ...

[TallSomeone]

@ViennaForever

Never such a narrow contrivation have I read! It is oh-so-easy to say this about popular folks (that they are just valuable for their thing and no more), but it is absurdly naive.

Many, many people want to hear the depths, backgrounds and musings of public figures. This forum supplies that. What's the beef if you can just not watch and mind your business?

You felt it was important to give your connection with James. Are you bumbling, too?

[ViennaForever]

@TallSomeone, if you read my paragraph a little closer I am not protesting "musings" nor "depths", no indeed. I interviewed lots of people on radio and television. I loved drawing out those little known facts and getting out of the normal interview parameters. I could have gotten more out of James Taylor and without the pseudo-intellectual worship, self-aggrandizement, and rapturous "humility". Too stuffed shirt for me. And I could have gotten him to loosen up and laugh, too.

[KarlDaggerfield]

@ViennaForever LMAO nice one. Rose is a lefty which seems to lead towards pseudo-knowledge of various kinds. But Taylor is starting to resemble the myopic worm on Rocky & Bullwinkle.

[Reverendjim1]

@ViennaForever I very much agree with you regarding the contrived intellectualism that is too often served on the Charlie Rose show; I imagine that this a result of the shows atmosphere and culture. However Charlie Rose conducts lucid interviews for the most part and he is not afraid to let his guests talk; unlike so many other interviewers who for some reason must interrupt their guests at every chance.

[bherber]

@ViennaForever That's true, it is a little overly introspective

[gapeach7355]

@ViennaForever People immersed in "their" world (as are these musicians) tend to elevate that to some exaggerated level of importance---after all it is their world.

JT admits that he is (more or less) a storyteller, reflecting his own experiences, singing and playing the gituar. Gotta' give him props for not trying to make more of it than it is...but it is good stuff. : )

[stjulienlepauvre]

@ViennaForever There are worse things than trying to make sense of the world. Words are one of the few ways we have to do that. Don't you think songs, esp. lyrics, are other ways some of us try to understand what we feel? Anti-intellecualism is just another prejudice--apparently, some people feel better when they criticize others.

[ViennaForever]

@stjulienlepauvre Where do you get the mis-impression that I am railing against intellectualism?

To condemn PSEUDO-intellectualism is far from being anti-intellectual. If I have a prejudice it is against patently FALSE posturing AS IF this was being intellectual. Which is a Charlie Rose interview, in general, and THIS one in particular.

[justwarren]

@ViennaForever I think your comments are actually quite funny and not totally inaccurate. But somewhat in JT's defense, he actually does talk that way! He has a slight stammer that in this Charlie Rose context makes him sound "affected". I think it's a Charlie Rose thing, not a James thing in my opinion.

[NYCBG]

@ViennaForever I thought that no one else noticed this about Rose. Now I'm at peace! Thanks!

[ViennaForever]

@NYCBG I but live to bring peace and hope to this needy world!

I am sort of self-assembled by what surrounded me when I was coming up. I am communicating my inner self as much as possible. I am definitely derivative.

Take a common phrase and obfuscate it.

Example: "I like to get high." ("It may be said by those who profess to know me, that is, who can ever truly know me, in the deepest, depth of, you know, KNOWING... that I have shown proclivities, temporal uh...what was the question?

[bushhater99]

@ViennaForever

Fuck you!  is that anti pseudo intellectual enough for you, asshole?

[eslgurucalif]

@ViennaForever EXACTLY. Thanks for putting into words what I've noticed for years. The worst offenders are the 20-somethings (actors, directors, social media entrepreneurs) who can barely contain their excitement about being on Charlie Rose while trying to present calm, humble, sensible, reflective demeanors as precocious artistes and world-changers. Gotta love it.

[matimaui]

@ViennaForever

james taylor was talking like that because he is an introspective person. that's also why he is thoughtful and specific in expressing himself. that's why he doesn't look at people when he is answering their questions. his thinking process is compromised when he looks at the person he is responding to. i spot it easily because i am introspective and it happens to me too. why am i introspective? haven't yet figured it out.

[mytwocatz14]

@ViennaForever Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing within the first minute of this interview. Give me a freakin' break, couldn't have said it better.

[freedomland11]

James Looks intelligent with his whole style..He's a man with no boundaries I believe.

[utubuser10]

james seems so embarassed by yoyo's effusion. almost unbelieving, like wtf i'm just a guitar playin' druggie. sometimes we try too hard to categorize or 'bottle' things in more digestible, intellectually acceptable forms. james is james and that's that.

[braveheartsailor]

We gotta talk!

[English2You]

James vocals are compelling, but his "iconic voice" is totally rooted in his uniquely developed guitar style.

[bass0111]

I think that it's rooted both in his readily recognizable voice *and* in his superlative guitar work. James sounds like James.

Mike H.

[avvocatogorgia]

please gie us the whole !

[ShammShamm]

Quit interrupting and LISTEN Charlie,just for ONE show, please, you don't have to interject your ego at every opportunity, and let the conversational thread play out,..other than that, you're the best!

[SatinCowboy]

wow james stumbled the whole way through his talk with a few dozens um's and pauses. good musician but terrible speaker.

[Research0digo]

SatanCowBOY

James Taylor had (has?) terrible depression all his life - did you notice how he only raised his eyes to Mr Rose once this whole clip?

Did you notice how undoubtedly a very expensive shirt (aka well-fitting) was gathered or wrinkled in the front?

Gee, could that be a low self-estemm - from depression showing itself?

STFU already.

[Nursomama]

You see what you want to see..He is a brilliant man and musician. Whether his shirt is wrinkled, or his depression is showing is inconsequential.

[freedomland11]

you gotta be joking, let the man speak, with a name like SatinCowboy I would expect an ignorant comment!!

[Imboredandfree]

I should say to redirect him again. Anyhow it's a waste of time talking to a bounty hunter isn't it. From my perspective it's like being eaten alive by maggots when I didn't even join up! Yes julia there was a candle episdoe at school when I was 11 yrs old.

[Imboredandfree]

Well yes, it would have been a whole New World. I did repeatedly keep playing that song (as Iwent deafer and deafer ) to try to redirect them to a sensible mode. But it's impossible. Hence Mumbai is on fire again. The Islamist know that it is the Bush administration that will not budge. The generals carried out a reality TV experiment that went wrong, hence the California plane crash.

[Imboredandfree]

it's Guantanemo

[Imboredandfree]

I don't know why they are even discussing this ... It's like those awful military, secret experiments the Americans carried out on poor soldiers against their will and without their knowledge. Have you seen the PETA monkey shots on F.R.I.E.N.D.S ?

[Kikalani]

The essence of James Taylor can't be explained, not even by James, only experienced.

[reliablebow]

agreed...

[creten69]

south park voice,"oh yeah I remmember him back in 1977".

[flavnyc]

some things are better left unexplained

[FansFiltration]

James has one great voice, but he is a very strange strange man.

[Ozinuk]

The best are generally the strangest

[Steadno]

Can he get his pipe any deeper?

[yoyoloveT]

Thank you!! I was waiting for this!!!

(I wish it would be "a whole".)

[sec235]

you can watch the whole episode on charlie rose's website

[yoyoloveT]

How kind of you!! Thank you :)