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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.

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
Months
Quart
Wife
Murderous
Working
Drunkenness
Many
Suicidal
Hard
Whiskey
Long
Bottles
Hiding
Poem
Alibis

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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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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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