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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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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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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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 know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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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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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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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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I was in chemical jail.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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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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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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