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I was in chemical jail.

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
Chemical
Chemicals
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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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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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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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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 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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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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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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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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