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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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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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'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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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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I was in chemical jail.
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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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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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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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 sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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