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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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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Music
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Strum
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Guitar
Wait
Songs
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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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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 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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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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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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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
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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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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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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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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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