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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
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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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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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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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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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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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
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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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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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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 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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.
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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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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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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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