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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
Thinking
Daisies
People
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Pushing
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