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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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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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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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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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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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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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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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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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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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 easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
James Taylor