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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
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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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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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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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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've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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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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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
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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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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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 trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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'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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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
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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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