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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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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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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
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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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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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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.
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