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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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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 was in chemical jail.
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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'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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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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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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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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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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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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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 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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