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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
Animate
Living
Character

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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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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've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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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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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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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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