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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'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 am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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I don't find the songs they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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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 sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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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 don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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 know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
James Taylor