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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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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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 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's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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 was in chemical jail.
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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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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 think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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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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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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To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
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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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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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