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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
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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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 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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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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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 collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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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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 believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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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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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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I was in chemical jail.
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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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