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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

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
Thankfulness
Showing
Thank
Without
Enough

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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 think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.
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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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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'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
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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 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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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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It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
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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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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.
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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 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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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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Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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