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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.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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 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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I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.
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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 don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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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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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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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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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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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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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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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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