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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
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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.
James Taylor
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
James Taylor
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
James Taylor
Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
James Taylor
I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
James Taylor
If you feel like singing along, don't.
James Taylor
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
James Taylor
I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.
James Taylor
Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
James Taylor
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor
There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
James Taylor
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
James Taylor
Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
James Taylor
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.
James Taylor
Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
James Taylor
In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
James Taylor
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
James Taylor
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
James Taylor
I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.
James Taylor
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
James Taylor
