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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 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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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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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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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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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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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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I don't find the songs they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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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 don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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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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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