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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
Living
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Animate

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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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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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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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'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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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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