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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.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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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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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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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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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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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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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.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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