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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
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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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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
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I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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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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If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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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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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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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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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 know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.
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