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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
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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Character

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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
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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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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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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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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 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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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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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 think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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'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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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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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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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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.
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