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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
Reminds
Loves
Universe
Music

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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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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 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'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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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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