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Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

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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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
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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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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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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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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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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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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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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 know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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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'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
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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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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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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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