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James Taylor

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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James Taylor is expressing relief that the music industry is changing because the people involved in the 1990s lacked genuine appreciation for music and musicians. He believes those individuals were focused on other goals rather than supporting the art and artists themselves.

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