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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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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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Spinning
Smile
Planets
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Space
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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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I was in chemical jail.
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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 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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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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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I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.
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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 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 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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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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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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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.
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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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