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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
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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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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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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 believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.
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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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Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.
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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 don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.
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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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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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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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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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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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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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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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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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