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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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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
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Boston
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James Vernon Taylor
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There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around
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Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
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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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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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I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.
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