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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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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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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 think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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I don't find the songs they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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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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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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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I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
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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 have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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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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