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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
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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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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Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
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In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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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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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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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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