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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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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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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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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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I was in chemical jail.
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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 think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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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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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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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 glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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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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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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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