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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Never
Slow
Grow
Grows
Dies
Young
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Ever
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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.
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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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