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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
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Certainly
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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'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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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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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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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 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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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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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'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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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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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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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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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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