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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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There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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 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'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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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 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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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 know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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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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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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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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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 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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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