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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 told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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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 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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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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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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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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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'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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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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I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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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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