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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
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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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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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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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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 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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