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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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 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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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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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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 don't find the songs they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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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.
James Taylor
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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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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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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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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