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

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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'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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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.
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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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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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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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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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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 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 have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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