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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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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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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
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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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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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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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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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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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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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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 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 looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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