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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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