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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.

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
Ride
Lovely
Hard
Trying

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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'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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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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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In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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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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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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