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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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Einstein
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Spinning
Smile
Planets
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Faces

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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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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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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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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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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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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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 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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I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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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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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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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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