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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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I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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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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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