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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.

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
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Delightful
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Mouth
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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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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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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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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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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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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 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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
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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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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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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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