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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.

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 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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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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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.
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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.
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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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Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
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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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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 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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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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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'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 collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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 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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