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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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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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 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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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've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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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 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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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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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 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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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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