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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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Heart
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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.
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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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