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James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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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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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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 tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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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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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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 easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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.
James Taylor
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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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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