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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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Living
Character

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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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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 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 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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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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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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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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I was in chemical jail.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
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