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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

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
Bald
Collect
Hats

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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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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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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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 easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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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 don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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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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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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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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