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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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I was in chemical jail.
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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.
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I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it 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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I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.
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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
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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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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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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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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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