"Fire and Rain" Quotes

Context

This line is from the song "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor, from the album Sweet Baby James (1970).

James Taylor's first big hit, "Fire and Rain," set off a singer-songwriter craze in the '70s. When Taylor wrote it, he was battling depression and drug addiction, so chances are that "fire and rain" stands for all the good stuff, bad stuff, and totally insane stuff he'd seen up to that point in his life. Now, check out Taylor singing the song—back when he still had hair.

Where you've heard it

You might've caught these lines on that episode of The Simpsons, where JT himself made a cameo. If not, you might've caught that episode of Glee where the song got the Glee treatment. Missed that? Well, here you go. Prepare to swoon.

Pretentious Factor

If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

If James Taylor is pretentious, we'll eat our hats. That's a lie. We would never eats hats—unless they were made from bologna.