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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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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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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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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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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
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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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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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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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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.
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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'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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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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Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.
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I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
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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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