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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

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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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Methadone
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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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 don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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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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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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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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 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'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.
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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'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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