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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.

James Taylor

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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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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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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