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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
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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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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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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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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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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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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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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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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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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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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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 was in chemical jail.
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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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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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