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• We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

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• That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.

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• The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

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• I am myself for a living. I don’t animate a character.

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• I don’t think anyone really says anything new.

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• I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

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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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• It is a process of discovery. It’s being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.

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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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• Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand.

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• I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

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• Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I’m as bald as a billiard ball!

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• A concert is always like a feast day to me.

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• I can take criticisms but not compliments.

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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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• I don’t get into heavy political numbers because I don’t find them lyrical.

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• I don’t play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

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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 read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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• I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

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James Taylor (64)

Birth:	12th March, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician, Singer

About

James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first No. 1 hit the following year with "You've Got a Friend", a recording of Carole King's classic song.

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