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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
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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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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'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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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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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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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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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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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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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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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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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 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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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