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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

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
Pain
Makes
Grow
Grows
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Faces

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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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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.
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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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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 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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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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