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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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Unstable
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Bus
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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
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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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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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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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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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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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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'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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