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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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
Something
Starts
Guitar
Present
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Write
Around
Music
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Wander

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