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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.
James Taylor
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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
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Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
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Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.
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Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
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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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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
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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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Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.
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Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
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I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.
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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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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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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 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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