I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor
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- That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
- 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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