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Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Tight
Lies
Hold
Wrong
Lying
Tell
Right

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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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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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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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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 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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