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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
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
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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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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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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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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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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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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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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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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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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