Or like in the early 70’s when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
More people care about LeBron James than some religious leader.
I started learning everybody’s riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
You can’t make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision – I think you can add to the vision – but you just can’t make an artist like that. That’s like saying Lebron James’ high school coach made Lebron James.
Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the ‘Today Show’ and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia – Julia Child, James Beard, they all came.
James Brown really taught me a lot – his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he’s onstage. I’ll always call him a legend, and I’ll always respect what he did.
Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.
I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don’t have me. You know, I’m doing what I can to suppress it and I don’t let it take advantage of me. It’s not who I am. You know, I’m James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.
On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,000 feet.
I remember, when I was doing ‘Nicholas Nickleby’, James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, ‘My father would like to see you after the show.’ It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, ‘Who the hell is he to summon me?’
Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder – I haven’t gone back in a really long time and really listened to them – my first guitar influences. It’s been awhile since I revisited that.
James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they’re fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.
Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.
‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ was a song I did on an album with Joe Bonamassa called ‘Don’t Explain,’ and I’ve always been such a huge, huge Etta James fan.
I’ve grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin – the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don’t watch them very much because I don’t think it’s fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.
I like the legend behind him. James Dean symbolizes the young actor’s dream. He struggled to get into Hollywood. He shot to fame at the age of 24 but only got to star in three films. It’s kind of a fantasy of what could have been.
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it’s a totally false dichotomy.
Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn’t think I could carry his shoes back then.
Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it’s making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who’s to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?
The second host that I had was an actress I didn’t know named Susan St. James.
If somebody says ‘singer-songwriter’ to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
I love ghost stories. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James’ ‘Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary’ under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories, completely terrified but absolutely loved them.
James Brown’s music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.
One person I’ve always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
I know this: Jerry Jones is unique, he’s as cool as James Bond and he has a command of his business. He can step into any arena and succeed.
Yeah, I think that’s it… It’s like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.
Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy – 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
I grew up on action movies. I love the James Bond and Jason Bourne movies.
I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio, hoping somebody would get sick or get hurt and that we’d get to sub for them.
I was in a movie with Marlon Brando. Now, I didn’t have any scenes with Marlon Brando, but I had scenes with Martin Sheen and was around Dennis Hopper, who was a child actor in the studio system and was enamored of James Dean, as was Martin, and they were all sort of disciples of Brando.
I love political cartoons from the 19th century, and whenever I complete a piece of acting work that I’m particularly proud of, be it a film or play, I treat myself to a picture by caricaturist James Gillray.
Playing Etta James in the movie ‘Cadillac Records’ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.
James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.
I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.
They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.
I’d my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.
I’m not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
This is to LeBron James: If you want to be the best, get rid of the comparisons. Get rid of all the comparisons that are out there. That’s what Michael Jordan did.
James is a domineering alpha male which is why I’m so attracted to him and why I sometimes hate him. And I’m a mouthy broad who has to be in control all the time. We must have broken up in excess of a thousand times.
My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
I have so much respect for athletes like LeBron James. I get motivation from them because I know how many hours they put into it. It takes a lot of hard work and drive.
I would love to have a Unification Match against Mickie James.
James Dean was always a tortured soul.
When I got married, I hired a great choir – the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir – to sing at my wedding.
I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n’ roll, the beat writers.
St James’ Park was always, in the course of my career, a great place to play football, for the wildness of the crowd and the no-holds-barred football that both my team, Manchester United, and Newcastle would play.
James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel ‘Deliverance’ was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of ‘The Great Gatsby.’
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn’t Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture’s deification of its idols.
James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught – I didn’t go to art school – so I thought when I started doing them, ‘If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,’ because his stuff is very raw.
I’d love to do something with somebody like James Blake.
I’m a big James Bond fan. I’ve got a collection of them.
I saw ‘Get On Up’ about a dozen times. I went every day. Every single day, I was standing outside when the movie theatre opened and bought my ticket. The theatre was usually empty. I live in a town that wasn’t eager or very interested in a James Brown biopic, but I couldn’t stop watching Boseman.
My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called ‘Breathing Corpses’ with James McAvoy, one of my best mates from drama school. I knew who she was, and I’d fancied her quite a bit when she played Melanie Owen in ‘EastEnders.’
