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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
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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 believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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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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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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 am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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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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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