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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
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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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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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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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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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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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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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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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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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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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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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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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