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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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 know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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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 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'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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 believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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