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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
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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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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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