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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
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Bald
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Hats
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I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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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'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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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 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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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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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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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 think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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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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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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