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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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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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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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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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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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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One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.
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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 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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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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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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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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