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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.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
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A concert is always like a feast day 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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I was in chemical jail.
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I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
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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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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.
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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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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 don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport
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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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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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I don't find the songs they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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