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I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

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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Bus
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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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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
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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 collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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