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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
Writer
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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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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 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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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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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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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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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 sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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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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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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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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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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