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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
Musician
Road
Coming
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Unstable
Money
Bus
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Live
Mouth
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Mouths

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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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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 now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of 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'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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I was in chemical jail.
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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've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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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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