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Music reminds us that the universe loves us

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Music
Reminds
Loves
Universe

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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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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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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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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There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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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 believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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 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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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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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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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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I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
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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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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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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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