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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

James Taylor

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Around
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Daisies
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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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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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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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 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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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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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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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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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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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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