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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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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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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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 think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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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'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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