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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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 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'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
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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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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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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.
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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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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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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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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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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.
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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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