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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.
James Taylor
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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 read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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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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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
James Taylor
If you feel like singing along, don't.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
James Taylor
Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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