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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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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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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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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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 ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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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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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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