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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

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
Everything
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Much
Originate
Certainly
Songs
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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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