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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.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
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I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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'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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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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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
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