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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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In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
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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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