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It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.

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'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 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 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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Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
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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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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm.
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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 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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I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
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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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Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.
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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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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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We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
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