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James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

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I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

Bald, Collect, Hats

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

Carved, Heart, Romantic, Sculpture

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

Face, Faces, Grow, Grows, Pain

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Musician, Passage, Secret, Time

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

Guitar, Guitar Music, Starts, Write, Writing

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

Desensitized, Hand, Mean, Overload, Sometimes, Things

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

Creativity, Gives, Giving, Life, Process

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

Band, Create, Good, Like, True, Vision

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

Cold, Light, Mean, Night, Nothing, Philosophy

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.

Discovery, Emotional, Enough, Song, Songs, Undisturbed

The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc. , when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.

Events, Global, High, Verifiable, Weather, Winter

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

Heart, Love, Love Is, Opening, Opening Up

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

Audience, Bald, Ball, Balls, Differences, Made

Try not to try to hard, it's just a lovely ride;)

Hard, Lovely, Ride, Trying

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

Arena, Back, Sports, Test, Tests

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

Gold, Sadness, Sold, Sorrow, Sorrows

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

Animate, Character, Living

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London. . . and I was totally unknown. . . . So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

Anxiety, Aware, Hear, Rain, Song, Writing

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.

Growing Up, Hearing, North, Soul, Thinking

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.

Iteration, Opposite, Opposites, Variation, Variations, Writing

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