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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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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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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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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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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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 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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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 have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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 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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In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
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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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