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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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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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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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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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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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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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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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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 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 trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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