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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

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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Though
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Heart
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I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.
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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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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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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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I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.
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I don't find the songs they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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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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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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