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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 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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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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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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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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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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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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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