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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

James Taylor

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
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It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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