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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

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'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
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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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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.
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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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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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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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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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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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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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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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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I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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