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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

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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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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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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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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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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 trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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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 know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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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 was in chemical jail.
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