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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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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 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 am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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 don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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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'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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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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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 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 sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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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'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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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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