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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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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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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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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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 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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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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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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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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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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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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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