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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
Reminds
Loves
Universe
Music

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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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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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 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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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've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.
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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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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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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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will 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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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.
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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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