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Jackson Browne Inspirational Quotes (55)

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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.
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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.
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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.
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Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
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We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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I never was a very good singer.
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Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.
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Let the disappointments pass Let the laughter fill your glass Let the illusions last until they shatter Whatever you might hope to find among the thoughts that crowd your mind There won't be many that ever really matter.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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