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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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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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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 collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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 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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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
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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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In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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'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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