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I was in chemical jail.

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Chemical
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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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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 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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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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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