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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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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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Desperate
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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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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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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!
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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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 believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
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I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.
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Try not to try too hard, It's just a lovely ride.
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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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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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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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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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You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.
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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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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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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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