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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.

James Taylor

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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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 sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
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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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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
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What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.
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I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.
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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.
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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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It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
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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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Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice Age. The possibility that humans may have contributed to the recent warming does not make it any less welcome.
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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 wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks.
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
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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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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 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 true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.
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I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
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