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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 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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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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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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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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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 collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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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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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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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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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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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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