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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
Guitar
Present
Read
Write
Around
Music
Writing
Wander
Something
Starts

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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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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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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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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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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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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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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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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.
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I was in chemical jail.
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