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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

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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 don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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