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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

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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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 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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.
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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 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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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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'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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