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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
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Boston
Massachusetts
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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.
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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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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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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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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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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 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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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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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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