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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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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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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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When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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 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 collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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I was in chemical jail.
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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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Music reminds us that the universe loves us
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
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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 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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A concert is always like a feast day to me.
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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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If you feel like singing along, don't.
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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'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.
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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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