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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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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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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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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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It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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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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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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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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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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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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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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