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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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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.
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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 don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I don't find the songs they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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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