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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 don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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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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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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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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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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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Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
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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'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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