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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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 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'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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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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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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