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

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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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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