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

— James Taylor

#easily #extent #i #i think #low

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character. ↗

— James Taylor

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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. ↗

— James Taylor

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

— James Taylor

#breaking up #marriage #responsible #sobering #stand

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well. ↗

— James Taylor

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I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium. ↗

— James Taylor

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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. ↗

— James Taylor

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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. ↗

— James Taylor

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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. ↗

— James Taylor

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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. ↗

— James Taylor

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