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Music reminds us that the universe loves us

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
Music
Reminds
Loves
Universe

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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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 grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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 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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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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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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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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'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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
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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 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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